LIBYA: Explosive device at a hotel in Benghazi, breaking windows and causing minor damage
Record ID:
352844
LIBYA: Explosive device at a hotel in Benghazi, breaking windows and causing minor damage
- Title: LIBYA: Explosive device at a hotel in Benghazi, breaking windows and causing minor damage
- Date: 9th March 2011
- Summary: BENGHAZI, LIBYA (MARCH 8, 2011) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF UZU HOTEL IN BENGHAZI VARIOUS OF BROKEN WINDOWS VARIOUS OF SMALL HOLE IN TILED FLOORING WERE EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE MORE OF BROKEN WINDOW
- Embargoed: 24th March 2011 12:00
- Keywords:
- Location: Libya
- Country: Libya
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVAE0NOW35FMVPT17H7DI3LAWO36
- Story Text: A man set off an explosive device at the entrance to a hotel in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday (March 8), breaking windows and creating a small hole in floor tiles.
Witnesses said the bomb exploded at about 4 a.m. at the hotel, which is also where many foreign journalists are based.
A Jordanian doctor working for Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was later taken away from the same hospital by people appearing to wear rebel army uniform, his colleagues said.
Colleagues of the doctor named him as Mohamed Nayef. Witnesses said the doctor was taken at about 1.30 p.m.
MSF volunteer Tamim el-Hilali, one of Nayef's colleagues, told Reuters at the hotel that two men dressed like members of the rebel army came to the doctor's room and took him away without giving their identities. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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