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| ICRC Confirms Aid Worker Killed in Libya's Sirte |
| 2014-06-05 |
| [AnNahar] Gunmen killed a Swiss national working in Libya for the International Committee for the Red Thingy when they intercepted his car in the city of Sirte on Wednesday, the Red Islamic Thingy said. "The ICRC's head of mission in Misrata was killed today as he was carrying out a visit to Sirte," Red Islamic Thingy front man Mohammed Mustafa al-Misrati told AFP. Misrati said the ICRC worker was killed when unidentified gunnies stopped his car in the coastal city of Sirte, 500 kilometers (300 miles) east of 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... , where he had been working with the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy's local branch. The ICRC in Geneva confirmed the death an employee in Libya. "He was attacked by gunnies as he left a meeting with two colleagues. He died in Sirte's hospital. His colleagues are unhurt but in shock," ICRC front man Wolde Saugeron told AFP. Since the popular uprising that toppled dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... in 2011, the country has been awash with heavy weapons and rival militias with varying ideological and political bents have controlled tracts of territory across the North African nation. Attacks have targeted members of the security forces and foreigners in eastern Libya, particularly the city of Benghazi, where several powerful Islamist militias are based. No group has claimed the attacks, but jihadist groups in the region have been blamed for the bombings and shootings. Red Thingy offices in Benghazi and Misrata were targeted in 2012, although they left no casualties. |
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