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US teacher and two Libyan soldiers shot dead in Benghazi
by Joseph Earnest December 5, 2013
Newscast Media BENGHAZI—Two Libyan soldiers and a US teacher were shot dead in separate incidents Thursday in the increasingly lawless eastern city of Benghazi, security officials said. The killings are the latest in a series of attacks in Benghazi on members of the military and the police force, as the North African nation struggles against insecurity.
Medics at the Al-Jala hospital named the murdered soldiers as Ahmed Hamdi, 23, and Salah al-Werfelli, 28, adding that both men had been shot in their heads.
Further east, in the Islamist bastion of Derna, residents on Thursday staged new demonstrations against what they say is anarchy in the city, demanding a police and army presence.
Like Benghazi, Derna has in recent months seen a wave of killings of members of the security forces and the judiciary.
The violence is blamed on jihadist
groups that have mushroomed since the toppling and killing in 2011 of
long-time dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
Chief among these is Ansar
al-Sharia, a jihadist group blamed for a 2012 attack on the US consulate
in Benghazi in which the ambassador and three other Americans were
killed.
The group implicitly denied responsibility for Monday's attack on protesters in Derna.
"Opening fire with live rounds on protesters ... is a dangerous thing," the group said in a statement received on Thursday by AFP.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan announced on Wednesday that preparations were under way to send troops to Derna, where law and order is almost non-existent.
The country's new authorities have tried in vain to integrate former rebels who helped topple Kadhafi into the regular armed forces, with many militias carving their own fiefdoms, each with its own ideology and regional allegiances.
The dead US teacher worked at the city's international school, a Benghazi Medical Centre official said. Add Comments>>
Source: Al Manar TV news
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