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| Two killed, five critically injured in shooting at Benghazi protest |
| 2013-10-31 |
| [Libya Herald] Two people were killed and a further five critically-maimed last night when gunnies opened fire on a group of protestors outside Benghazi's Tibesti Hotel. The protestors were in a tent erected outside the hotel when two masked gunnies shot up around 9.30 pm, Spokesman for Benghazi Joint Security Room (BJSR), Abdullah Zaidi, told the Libya Herald. The gunnies immediately beat feet from the scene of crime, he said. Seven maimed people were brought to the hospital at 10 pm last night, according to the head of Jalaa Hospital media office, Fadia Barghathi. Two of them died shortly after they arrived, she said, and the others remain at death's doors in the hospital's intensive care unit. Zaidi said the protestors were a group from the Ubaidi tribe, who were staging a peaceful protest demanding investigations into the killing of Major-General Abdel-Fattah Younis. The former Chief of Staff and two colleagues were murdered on 28 July 2011. The BJSR was investigating the attack on the protestors, Zaidi said, and had found a number of vehicles believed to be associated with the incident. |
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