By Maha Sulaiman.
Benghazi, 19 May 2016:
Three civilians were killed and nine wounded, three of them critically, when a rocket or mortar . . .[restrict]smashed into a busy road junction close to the Benghazi Medical Centre at 1 pm today.
One of the injured was a child. Among the dead was a shopkeeper who had been standing outside his store.
The security forces are saying that it unclear from where the shell was fired. Despite being virtually surrounded for months by the Libyan National Army, terrorists are still holding out in Sabri and Suq Al-Hout. The main body of terrorists has been pushed back to Gwarsha and Ganfouda.
At the beginning of the month, five people, including a woman and a child were killed and 40 injured when four mortars landed on a small pro-Hafter demonstration in the city’s Kish Square.
Though one security force member described today’s firing as a random attack, as with the Kish Square salvo, it would seem that there was deliberate ranging involved. The junction is always busy around midday and the BMC nearby also presented an obvious terrorist target. [/restrict]
