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| Two more killings in Derna |
| 2014-06-17 |
| [Libya Herald] In the last 48 hours in Derna, one man is known to have been murdered and another is reported to have been assassinated. Faraj Rizg Al-Mansouri, a former municipal guard members was killed in the Bab Tobruk district south of Derna on Friday, a reliable source in the town has told the Libya Herald. He was shot down by gunnies in a car and was dead on arrival at Harish Hospital. Earlier this year he survived a kaboom beneath his car, though he lost a leg in the kaboom. The second victim, named as Salem Al-Aligi, from Tobruk, believed to be a member of the armed forces, was reportedly murdered in front of his father by gunnies manning a checkpoint at Al Heisha, to the south of Derna on the road to Tobruk. Social media claimed that when his vehicle was stopped and searched, his military identification papers were discovered. It is understood that he was shot summarily by the side of the road. His body was taken to a hospital at Goubba. |
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