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| Egypt 'deeply concerned' as another citizen shot in Benghazi |
| 2014-03-04 |
| [Al Ahram] Egypt said on Sunday it was deeply concerned about violence targeting its citizens in Libya, hours after an Egyptian was shot in Benghaziamid growing Islamist violence in the city. Salama Fawzy was shot by a gunman while at a grocer's in the city's Magoury area, Egypt's foreign ministry said in a Sunday statement, adding that the victim was hospitalised in a "highly critical condition." "Egypt is following, with strong dissatisfaction and deep concern, the recurrent violence against Egyptians in Libya, the latest of which is Sunday's heinous crime," the ministry said Egypt has asked the Libyan authorities to open an investigation into the "heinous terrorist incident" and to inform it of the results, added the statement. Since the 2011 revolution that ousted autocrat Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... ,Libyan authorities have struggled to hold back brigades of former rebels and Islamist militias who have easy access to weaponry. The incident on Sunday came a week after seven Egyptian Christians were found rubbed out execution-style in Benghazi, eastern Libya. In a separate attack on Sunday, gunnies killeda Frenchie in Benghazi, an incident the French foreign ministry condemned as "odious and cowardly." |
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