(Bloomberg) -- Unidentified armed men have taken captive Libya's incoming foreign and culture ministers while they were en route to the eastern city of Tobruk, Libya's Ahrar TV reports.
The two are among the ministers picked as part of a new government unveiled by incoming Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha. The new government was scheduled to be sworn in before parliament in Tobruk later in the day.
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Lawmakers had picked Bashagha, a former interior minister, as premier, arguing that the tenure of incumbent Abdul Hamid Dbeibah expired after the country failed to hold presidential elections in December, as planned.
The television station cited unidentified sources close to Bashagha.
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