India, Dec. 29 -- Hundreds of people on Sunday mourned western Libya's military chief and four others who were killed in a plane crash in Turkiye. The coffins of Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad and two others were brought into a stadium in the coastal city of Misrata, their hometown, for a funeral ceremony that included Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah and other military and political leaders. The bodies will be taken by their families for a private burial elsewhere. Ceremonies were also held in Ankara and Tripoli on Saturday. A private jet with al-Haddad and four other military officers and three crew members crashed on Tuesday after taking off from Ankara, Turkiye's capital.

Libyan officials said the cause was a technical malfuncti...