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| Gunmen Attack Prisoners Convoy in Libya |
| 2013-08-03 |
| [AnNahar] Eighteen prisoners have escaped during an attack on a Libyan police vehicle taking them back to prison from a courthouse in the capital, a police front man said on Friday. Thursday's attack is the latest in a string of incidents plaguing Libya and comes after more than 1,200 inmates escaped during a prison riot last week in the restive eastern city of Benghazi. Judicial police front man Ahmad Boukraa said the prisoners were being transported back to Ain Zara prison in a western suburb of 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... when gunnies attacked the police vehicle, seriously wounding two guards, Lana news agency reported. Boukraa gave no further details. Libya's authorities have been struggling to reestablish law and order and form a professional police and army since the fall of longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in 2011. On July 27, more than 1,200 inmates beat feet from Al-Kuifiya prison in Benghazi, with a security official saying most of them were common law detainees. He said they broke out during a riot "as well as an attack from outside." In April gunnies attacked a convoy of prisoners near Tripoli, killing a detainee and wounding others. |
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