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| RPG assault on Sebha police station injures eleven police and civilians |
| 2013-08-27 |
| [Libya Herald] An apparently carefully-planned rocket and gun attack on Sebha's main cop shoppe left 12 people injured, including one of the attackers. The assault came in two stages. The first was the launching of a rocket-propelled grenade at the building at 11:30 pm on Sunday. The device caused no injuries. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... two hours later, while police and crowds were examining the damage, a further assault was launched. While gunnies drove up to the front of the cop shoppe and sprayed it with bullets, a second RPG was launched from the rooftop of a neighbouring building. It was this weapon and the debris and shrapnel from its kaboom that showered down onto people at ground level, that caused most of the casualties. Seven coppers were hurt along with four civilians. The front man for the Sebha Security Directorate, who asked not to be named, told the Libya Herald that he believed that the gun attack had been a diversion, to allow the assailant with the RPG to get into position on the rooftop. "It was done to distract the attention of the coppers" he said. Officers returned the fire from the cars, which then expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. "We believe that we maimed at least one of the attackers, " said the front man, "because when we went to where they had shot at us, we found blood and fragments of glass". The eleven injured were treated in Sebha hospital, then flown early this morning to Tunisia for further treatment. |
| Posted by:Fred |