By Noora Ibrahim and Ayman Amzein.
Benghazi, 10 March 2014:
The campaign against security officials in Benghazi shows no sign of letting up. . . .[restrict]Another military police officer was killed and two others wounded today in two separate attacks in the city.
Milad Tarhouni was killed and his colleague, Hatem Salah Al-Araibi, wounded when gunmen attacked them in Gwashra district this afternoon. Tahrouni’s body was taken to the Benghazi Medical Centre. Al-Araibi is said to be in a serious condition in an intensive care unit.
This morning, a lieutenant-colonel in the force, Mohamed Ahmed Al-Barasi, was critically injured when a bomb blew up under his car in Benghazi’s Al-Hijaz street, near Leihi distrct.
Barasi, 48, who lives in Benghazi’s Majouri district, is also in intensive care.
Last month a retired colonel and a driver for the military police survived assassination attempts in two separate incidents in Benghazi.
Last October, the head of the Military Police, Colonel Ahmed Mustafa Al-Barghathi, was shot outside his house in Benghazi.
Two day ago, Saturday, there were three other killings in the city, one of which is believed to have been an attempted robbery. A Lebanese businessman, named as Ahmed Sibaiye, aged 55, was shot as he and his Libyan employees were closing his shop in Al-Adeep Street in the downtown area. Two cars arrived and men tried to force him to go with them. He refused and they shot him dead. Originally from Beirut, Sibaiye had been working in Libya for some 30 years.
Also on Saturday, the bodies of a married couple were discovered in their apartment in Gwarsha. Khaled Al-Jazwi, 45, and his 32-year-old wife, Hana Abdusallam Attiya, had both been shot, she three times, him four times.
The motive for the murders is unknown.
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