Libyan
police have discovered the bodies of seven Egyptian Christians killed
execution-style on a beach in Eastern Libya. This has been confirmed by
security officials and local residents said on February 24, 2014,
Monday.
According
to Reuters, the deceased had gunshots to the head. The alleged
execution took place outside Benghazi, where assassinations, kidnappings
and car bombs are common and Islamist militants are especially active.
A
local resident and an Egyptian worker, who spoke to reporters on
conditions of anonymity due to the fear for their safety, narrated that a
group of unknown gunmen had arrived at the Egyptians' home in the city,
and dragged them away the night before.
Security
sources confirmed the Egyptians were Christians. However, further
details were quite sketchy. No group claimed responsibility for mass
murder.
Three
years after the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's weak
government and army struggles to control brigades of former rebels and
Islamist militias in a country awash with weapons.
It
would be recalled that in January 2014, a British man and a New Zealand
woman were shot execution-style on another beach, about 100 km to the
west of the capital city of Tripoli.
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