[Ennahar] Clashes between police and anti-regime demonstrators in different parts of Libya have caused many casualties among the protesters who demanded the departure of the regime.
According to Libyan opposition websites, in addition to Arab and Western media, not less than 50 victims fell under the bullets of security forces. Witnesses report that the Libyan authorities have appealed to African mercenary forces, loyal to Saadi Qadaffy, son of Libyan leader.
In the town of El-Beida, the same sources report that elements of Homeland Security allegedly attacked protesters during the Asr prayer (afternoon), although the demonstrators had previously informed the police that their march was peaceful: "peaceful, peaceful," they shouted before police starts shooting at them, injuring several people.
The same sources added that three people, including a child, were killed and several others were maimed.
In the same city, thirty people were killed until yesterday afternoon in different neighborhoods. Reinforcements were dispatched at dawn in the town of El Beida in two planes.
According to the daily "Libya El Youm" (Libya Today), citing informed sources, a helicopter would have unloaded weapons and ammunition to African mercenaries, before flying over the protesters and disperse them.
The newspaper adds that African mercenaries, from the group "Khemis el Qadaffy," came in bloody festivities with protesters in the city of El Beida.
According to the same sources, five African mercenaries were killed in these festivities; the body of a mercenary was hanged before the hospital. Two other mercenaries were nabbed.
The nabbed African mercenaries, the newspaper reported, acknowledged to have received promises, from the son of Qadaffy, to receive $ 10,000 for every protester killed.
In Benghazi, Libyan city where the first protests began, the atmosphere was very tense on the third day of violence. The angry protesters set fire to the headquarters of several public institutions, the revolutionary committees and the radio. 
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