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| Four Libyan Soldiers Killed in Benghazi Attacks |
| 2014-05-12 |
| [AnNahar] Four Libyan soldiers were rubbed out on Sunday in separate incidents in the restive eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 uprising, security and medical sources said. "Unidentified gunnies killed four soldiers and maimed another in Benghazi, while another was maimed in an liquidation attempt," a security official told Agence La Belle France Presse. A spokeswoman at the city's al-Jala hospital, Fadia al-Barghathi, confirmed the soldiers' deaths. The security official said they had been killed in separate attacks. An officer died in a hail of bullets in the city center district of al-Hadaek. His son, who was with him in his car at the time, escaped unscathed. The same source said three more soldiers were killed and one maimed in two attacks in the Assalem neighborhood. It was in Benghazi that the 2011 uprising which ended strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... 's four-decade rule began. The city has since been plagued by violence that has killed dozens of members of the security forces, judges and foreigners. A suicide kaboom targeting a security post near the city in December killed 13, and on May 2 five soldiers and a policeman died in festivities between jihadists and army special forces. Libya's central authorities have struggled to assert their control over the vast, mostly desert country, which is effectively ruled by a patchwork of local militias and awash with heavy weapons. In March, the authorities acknowledged for the first time the existence of "terrorist groups" in Libya, particularly in Benghazi and in Derna, an eastern city with a history of Islamist militancy. |
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