At least nine people were reported killed and dozens more injured in
Benghazi on Friday when mortar shells fell on people protesting against a
UN proposal for a unity government to end a political crisis.
Waving banners and placards, more than 2,000 people took to Benghazi’s al-Keesh square on Friday to demonstrate against the UN proposal. At least seven mortar shells hit the crowd, hospital sources said. Nine people were reported to have died, with more than 20 others wounded.
Four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is caught in a conflict that pits the internationally recognised government and its armed backers against a rival government set up by an armed alliance that took over the capital last year.
Benghazi has become one front in Libya’s multi-sided war, with General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army forces fighting an alliance of Islamist fighters and former anti-Gaddafi rebels.
Waving banners and placards, more than 2,000 people took to Benghazi’s al-Keesh square on Friday to demonstrate against the UN proposal. At least seven mortar shells hit the crowd, hospital sources said. Nine people were reported to have died, with more than 20 others wounded.
Four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is caught in a conflict that pits the internationally recognised government and its armed backers against a rival government set up by an armed alliance that took over the capital last year.
Benghazi has become one front in Libya’s multi-sided war, with General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army forces fighting an alliance of Islamist fighters and former anti-Gaddafi rebels.
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