- Title: LIBYA: Italian consul shot at while driving through Benghazi
- Date: 12th January 2013
- Summary: BENGHAZI, LIBYA (JANUARY 12, 2013) (REUTERS) ***NIGHT SHOTS*** VARIOUS OF CAR BELONGING TO ITALIAN CONSUL IN BENGHAZI WITH BULLET HOLES (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) POLICEMAN, USAMA AL-ABBAR, SAYING: "Two of the consul's guards informed us of the attack and told us that gunmen fired their weapons at the car. We went with the revolutionaries to the consul's house and we saw the car in the state that you see it. He is unharmed and doing well and we have evacuated him to the hotel." VARIOUS OF VEHICLE THAT WAS ATTACKED VARIOUS OF CONSUL'S RESIDENCE WHERE ATTACK TOOK PLACE
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- Story Text: An Italian consul came under fire in his car in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Saturday (January 13) but was unhurt, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.
"He is completely unharmed," said the spokesman.
"Two of the consul's guards informed us of the attack and told us that gunmen fired their weapons at the car. We went with the revolutionaries to the consul's house and we saw the car in the state that you see it. He is unharmed and doing well and we have evacuated him to the hotel," said policeman Usama al-Abbar.
The consul, Guido de Sanctis, is based in Benghazi.
Security for Westerners in Libya's second city has been an acute concern since the U.S. ambassador was killed along with three other U.S. embassy staff in an assault on the U.S. consulate in the city on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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