India has decided to send an armed contingent of its specially-trained commandos to guard the Indian Embassy in violence-hit Libyan capital of Tripoli. Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, during his media interaction in New Delhi on Saturday, said the decision was taken recently and an armed contingent drawn from one of the central armed police forces will be deployed to secure the Embassy and the residence of the Ambassador in Tripoli.Shinde said the home ministry has given in-principle approval to the proposal mooted by the Ministry of External Affairs.The Indian Embassy in Tripoli is located in the Fashloom Area in Nafleen.

The North African country has been hit by violence in the wake of the Arab Spring and India has firmed up this decision, it is learnt, in view of the last September terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that left US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three others dead.