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| 15 Dead as Deadly Car Bombing Hits Benghazi |
| 2013-05-14 |
[An Nahar] A powerful boom-mobile went kaboom!Monday near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi, killing and wounding dozens in what officials said was the first such attack on civilians since Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... 's ouster. Officials gave contradicting corpse counts, however, as information trickled in about the devastating bombing which destroyed a restaurant and damaged cars and buildings near Al-Jala hospital in the center of Benghazi. Deputy Interior Minister Abdullah Massoud said 15 people were killed and another 30 maimed in the attack on the eastern city, cradle of the 2011 armed uprising in which Qadaffy was killed. He stressed it was only a "preliminary toll". But health ministry front man Salah Abdeldayem later told Agence La Belle France Presse in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that four people died and six were maimed. A police official in Benghazi gave a higher toll. Tarak al-Kharaz told Libya's Al-Ahrar television station that the boom-mobileing killed 13 people and maimed 41 others. Dozens of people, many of them youths, rushed to the scene of the attack, some even volunteering to gather body parts and place them in clear plastic bags, AFP journalists reported. Witnesses said children were among the casualties, but it was not immediately clear if they were dead or maimed. The bombing wrecked cars and left debris scattered on the ground. The deputy interior minister said the blast "totally destroyed a restaurant" and damaged buildings near the hospital. A security official said the blast destroyed the hospital's car park. A witness told AFP he heard a "very loud kaboom". Justice Minister Salah al-Mirghani denounced a "terrorist act" and vowed the authorities would "do everything possible to arrest the criminals". Mirghani also urged "unity" among Libyans as commentators noted the bombing was the first to target civilians in Libya since the 2011 uprising that toppled Qadaffy's regime and to take place in broad daylight. |
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| #1 What difference does it make? |
| Posted by: Hillary Clinton 2013-05-14 12:04 |