Two Serbian embassy employees who were kidnapped in Libya in November have been killed in a US air strike.
Serbia's foreign minister said the pair were killed in the strike on a camp belonging to the so-called Islamic State group.
"Unfortunately as a consequence of this attack on the IS in Libya, the two of them lost their lives," Ivica Dacic told reporters, referring to Friday's air strike.
Embassy communications chief Sladjana Stankovic and her driver Jovica Stepic were kidnapped on November 8 in the coastal city of Sabratha, 70 kilometres west of Tripoli, from a convoy of cars heading to the Tunisian border.
The US strike, which targeted a jihadist training camp near Sabratha, killed dozens of people, probably including Noureddine Chouchane, a senior IS group operative behind attacks in Tunisia, US officials said Friday.
It was the second US air raid in the violence-wracked North African country targeting the fast-expanding jihadist group in the past three months.
Serbia maintains an embassy in Tripoli, and Serbian citizens, mostly doctors and other medical staff as well as construction workers, have been working in Libya for decades due to close bilateral relations during Gadaffi's regime.
