A US air raid on a suspected ISIL camp on 19 February near the city of Sabratha killed 49 people, including two Serbian embassy members, who had been taken hostage by the militants on 8 November 2015 from a convoy of cars heading towards the Tunisian border. An ISIL operative named Noureddine Chouchane who is behind the Sousse attacks that left 30 British citizens dead was believed to have been killed in the airstrike.