Two RAF Hercules rescue 150 Britons from Libya as British Embassy evacuates all staff

Two RAF Hercules rescue 150 Britons from Libya as British Embassy evacuates all staff "British special forces today rescued 150 trapped UK citizens after launching an audacious rescue mission across the Libyan desert.

Two RAF Hercules retrieved the terrified oil workers from remote outposts south of the country's second city of Benghazi.

The rescue mission was made up of around two dozen members of special forces with the team including 12 SAS and eight men from the Special Boat Service.

The Daily Mail understands that the team infiltrated the area overland before securing a section of the volatile desert to use as a landing strip."