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| Gunmen Attack Police Station in Libya's Benghazi |
| 2013-05-16 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen on Wednesday attacked and set fire to a cop shoppe in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi to avenge the death of a colleague in an overnight incident, a security official said. Policemen withdrew from the Alhadek cop shoppe which was then torched by the attackers, while gunfire reverberated around the complex, an Agence La Belle France Presse correspondent reported. Wednesday's assault on the building came after the group had during the night attempted to storm it. "Last night there was an attack against the cop shoppe," the security official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... "The security forces defended the building and killed one of the attackers," the official said, adding that Wednesday's assault appeared to be avenge the slain gunman. The attack comes two days after a car kaboom in the city which killed three people and maimed 14. After initially denouncing the blast as a "terrorist act" the Libyan authorities said on Tuesday that all signs showed that the car kaboom was an "accident." |
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