Tripoli, December 23 (QNA) - Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah confirmed on Tuesday the death of Libyan military chief Mohamed Ali Ahmad Al Haddad in a jet crash after leaving Turkiye.

Turkiye's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said that the jet carrying the Libyan army chief and four other Libyan officials that lost contact shortly after departing Ankara has been found south of the Turkish capital.

The wreckage of jet, which took off from Ankara's Esenboga Airport en route to Tripoli, was found by gendarmerie teams about 2 kilometers south of Kesikkavak village in the Haymana district, Yerlikaya said.

Earlier, Yerlikaya announced that contact was lost with the jet, shortly after it departed.

He said the aircraft had transmitted an emergency landing notification near Haymana but that no further communication could be established afterward. (QNA)