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| 14 Killed in Clashes in Libya's Benghazi |
| 2015-07-10 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] At least 14 people were killed in battles in Libya's second city Benghazi between faceless myrmidons and forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, hospital officials said on Thursday. The fighting erupted Wednesday morning in the centre of the city, the officials said.Libya holy warriors The Benghazi Medical Centre said on its Facebook page that it had received the bodies of 13 people as well as 50 maimed. Al-Jalaa hospital said it was hit by a rocket that killed one person and maimed three. It was not immediately clear if those killed and maimed in the festivities -- which subsided late Wednesday -- were civilians or fighters. Benghazi has been reeling from more than a year of near-daily festivities between pro-government forces and gangs, including Islamists, battling for control of the eastern city. At least 1,700 people have been killed in the violence since early 2014, according to the Libya Body Count watchdog. Elsewhere in Libya, a senior military intelligence officer was killed in third city Misrata on Wednesday when a bomb concealed in his car went kaboom!, a security official said. The officer, Taher Allush, was close to Fajr Libya, a militia alliance which seized 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... in August last year and set up a rival government and parliament. |
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