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Officials in the United Nations-backed government in Libya say as many as 40 people have been killed by an airstrike which hit a migrant detention centre on the outskirts of the capital Tripoli.

They believe many of those killed were migrants from Africa. Another 80 people are said to have been wounded.

The Libyan National Army - loyal to general Khalifa Haftar - has been attempting to take the capital from the internationally-recognised government for several weeks, but say their warplanes did not attack the centre.

Dr Khalid Bin Attia is an official in the Libyan health ministry. He lives in Tajoura where the bombing happened and had visited the site of the attack before speaking to Newsday.

(Photo: Emergency workers arrive at the scene in Tajoura Credit: AFP)