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| Suluq passport chief gunned down this evening |
| 2016-11-14 |
| [Libya Herald] The head of Suluq’s passport department died late this afternoon in a hail of gunfire when assassins targeted him as he was leaving his office. Eye witnesses said that Abdel Halim Sherif was attacked by gunnies in a black Nissan Maxima outside his workplace near the al-Jouda Alfaika flour company. Sherif was a major in the Interior ministry’s immigration department. The murder in the town, 54 kilometres south-west of Benghazi, is reminiscent of the spate of 2012/13 killings of officials that finally triggered Operation Dignity. However this killing may have been more targeted. The Libya Herald has been told that the murdered man’s brother is journalist Malik Sherif, who heads the information office of army chief-of-staff and Cyrenaica military governor Major-General Abdul Razzak al-Nazhuri. |
| Posted by:Fred |