LIBYA: Police headquarters in Tripoli hit

Record ID: 352336

  • Title: LIBYA: Police headquarters in Tripoli hit
  • Date: 18th May 2011
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LIBYA (MAY 17, 2011) (REUTERS) WIDE OF STREET WITH POLICE HEADQUARTERS BURNING IN BACKGROUND FLAMES FROM POLICE BUILDING WIDE OF BURNING BUILDING ASSAULT RIFLE BEING FIRED INTO THE AIR NEXT TO POLICE STATION MORE OF FLAMES FORM POLICE STATION FIRE ENGINES ON ROAD FIRE CREWS STANDING NEXT TO GOVERNMENT ANTI CORRUPTION OFFICE CLSOEUP OF BURNING BUILDING DEBRIS IN SIDE ROAD MORE OF FLAMES BURNING BUILDING WITH SMOKE RISING VARIOUS OF FIRE ENGINES ON STREET FIRE CREWS TRYING TO REMOVE SECURITY BARRIER FROM BUILDING SMOKE RISING MORE OF PEOPLE PULLING DOWN SECURITY BARRIER FIREMAN SPRAYING WATER INTO BURNING BUILDING SMOKE RISING FROM BUILDING FIRE ENGINE DRIVING ON STREET PAST BURNING POLICE HEADQUARTERS PAN FROM BURNING BUILDING TO RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT BLOCK AMBULANCES ON ROAD GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN MUSSA IBRAHIM WITH MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN MUSSA IBRAHIM SAYING: "Other targets were hit tonight, in the early hours of the morning, in the city of Tripoli. The main targets were the head of the police force in Tripoli and the Ministry for Popular Inspection and Oversight (anti corruption)." MEDIA FILMING (SOUNDBITE) (English) GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN MUSSA IBRAHIM SAYING: "As you saw also the targets were located in a very civilian residential area, so people have been terrorised, families terrorised, children terrorised, some of course minor damage to houses around." WIDE OF IBRAHIM WITH MEDIA
  • Embargoed: 2nd June 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Libya
  • Country: Libya
  • Topics: Police
  • Reuters ID: LVA9A2BZBBBXBOKRYVTHNMPTLY9C
  • Story Text: A spokesman for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday (May 17) that NATO had struck at two buildings in the capital Tripoli in the early hours.
    Journalists staying in Tripoli were taken by their minders to the site of two burning buildings.
    Mussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi spokesman said the headquarters of the police force had been hit as well as the ministry for popular inspection and oversight.
    He also said that there were many civilians living in this area.
    "Other targets were hit tonight, in the early hours of the morning, in the city of Tripoli. The main targets were the head of the police force in Tripoli and the Ministry for Popular Inspection and Oversight (anti corruption)," said Mussa Ibrahim
    "As you saw also the targets were located in a very civilian residential area, so people have been terrorised, families terrorised, children terrorised, some of course minor damage to houses around," said Ibrahim.
    Britain has led calls to widen NATO's targets.
    NATO, which has been hitting targets in Libya for nearly two months, appeared to step up its bombing campaign on Monday with strikes in several towns and cities including Tripoli, according to Libyan state television and rebels.
    On the diplomatic front, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the United Nations was working on the removal of Gaddafi to exile to make way for a new government, and a Libyan government delegation was expected in Moscow on Tuesday.
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