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Panafrican News Agency
Libya: Three judicial police officers die, six others injured in attack
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Three judicial police officers were killed and six others injured on Thursday in an attack in the city of Ouerchafana, in western Libya, by an armed gang, according to the chief of judicial police guards at the Justice ministry, Mr Abdallah Mohamed.
The attack was perpetrated during an operation to retrieve a stolen car belonging to the Justice ministry, he said at a joint news conference in Tripoli with the Justice minister, Salah al-Marghani.
Mohamed said that three other officers were still missing, stressing that unknown men had stolen the vehicle of one of their colleagues and when they intervened to retrieve it the gang shot at them.
The Justice minister said that the authorities were informed and measures were taken to track down the perpetrators.
The proliferation of arms in the wake of the Libyan revolution in 2011 has triggered security chaos in the country aggravated by the delay by the new authorities to train new and efficient security organs.
This has led to the increase in the number of well armed militias who impose their law on the people, thus contributing to increasing insecurity in the country, especially in the eastern region.
The intelligence service chief for the eastern region was shot dead on Thursday in Benghazi as the wave of assassinations targeting soldiers and policemen continues. Earlier in the day, two explosions rocked the mausoleums of the Asahaba in Derna and the amphitheatre of the city’s university.
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The attack was perpetrated during an operation to retrieve a stolen car belonging to the Justice ministry, he said at a joint news conference in Tripoli with the Justice minister, Salah al-Marghani.
Mohamed said that three other officers were still missing, stressing that unknown men had stolen the vehicle of one of their colleagues and when they intervened to retrieve it the gang shot at them.
The Justice minister said that the authorities were informed and measures were taken to track down the perpetrators.
The proliferation of arms in the wake of the Libyan revolution in 2011 has triggered security chaos in the country aggravated by the delay by the new authorities to train new and efficient security organs.
This has led to the increase in the number of well armed militias who impose their law on the people, thus contributing to increasing insecurity in the country, especially in the eastern region.
The intelligence service chief for the eastern region was shot dead on Thursday in Benghazi as the wave of assassinations targeting soldiers and policemen continues. Earlier in the day, two explosions rocked the mausoleums of the Asahaba in Derna and the amphitheatre of the city’s university.
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