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Four soldiers and three civilians die in latest Benghazi violence
2017-05-04
[Libya Herald] More death and destruction came to Benghazi today when three non-combatants were killed in a rocket attack and four sappers perished when a mine went kaboom! while they were tackling it.

The non-combatants were killed when a rocket hit a building in Shibna which is part of the city’s Hay Dollar district. Accounts differ on the number of maimed but between seven and 14 people were take to al-Jalaa hospital, some wth serious injuries. It is reported that turbans are claiming the rocket attack was in retaliation for air strikes on their positions in Sabri during which some of their number were killed.

There is less information about the death of four mine clearance experts in Sabri. The men from the Libyan National Army (LNA) engineers were trying to defuse an bomb when it detonated killing all of them.
Posted by:Fred

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