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| Courthouse in Benghazi: Lynching of black people & visit from Sarkozy and Cameron |
According to AFP - A blast ripped through a courthouse in the eastern
city of Benghazi on Friday causing serious damage to the building but no
casualties, Libyan security sources said.
The explosion punched a
hole three metres (10 feet) in diameter through the walls of the
courthouse on Meidan al-Shajara, a public square flanked by several
government offices and the National Oil Corporation, an AFP journalist
said.
The impact caused damage to a courtroom inside but no casualties.
Security
sources told AFP that "unknown assailants booby-trapped the building"
and set off the explosion at "exactly 5 am (0300 GMT)."
The area was cordoned off, the journalist said. Witnesses and residents told AFP the blast was very intense.
"It left residents in the area and patients being treated in a nearby hospital completely shaken up," one said.
Late
Thursday, clashes sparked by a prison revolt in Benghazi, cradle of the
revolt that toppled Moamer Kadhafi's regime last year, left one person
dead and at least four wounded. The Mediterranean city has been
hit by sporadic acts of violence this year, including an attack on
government buildings, the desecration of a World War II cemetery,
clashes at political rallies and a failed bombing of a UN convoy.
Source: AFP
Read about the Sarkozy and Cameron's visit to Benghazi, when they took pictures in front of the courthouse, at the same place where the rebels lynched a black person, not so long ago: http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/09/libya-some-civilians-are-more-equal.html
Read also: http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/10/al-qaeda-raised-its-flag-in-libya.html
and: http://www.leonorenlibia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=126%3Alinchamiento-en-benghazi&catid=15%3Acatsouter&Itemid=16