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Germany warns citizens to leave Libya after deaths of 38 in clashes

Cashes broke out yesterday when Islamist groups launched an assault on the headquarters of a special forces unit

GERMANY HAS BECOME the latest country to warn its citizens to get away from Libya and its escalating violence.

At least 38 people, mostly soldiers, were killed in 24 hours of fierce fighting between the Libyan army and Islamists in Benghazi, officials said today.

A military source said the clashes broke out yesterday when Islamist groups launched an assault on the headquarters of a special forces unit near the city centre, causing casualties among forces defending their barracks.

Benghazi’s main hospital said the bodies of 28 soldiers had been taken there in the past 24 hours, along with 50 injured, while Al-Marj hospital, 100 kilometres to the east, spoke of two soldiers dead and ten injured.

A spokesman for the self-proclaimed Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries, an alliance of Islamic and jihadist militia who have claimed a number of attacks on military bases in the area, announced that eight of its fighters had died.

An AFP correspondent reported that several families could be seen leaving the area of the clashes, as loud explosions were heard in the city this morning. Near daily clashes take place in Benghazi and the latest came a day after the US evacuated its embassy in Tripoli due to fears for the safety of staff and as Britain joined the Americans in advising its citizens against travel to strife-torn Libya.

Germany has now joined these countries and many others that have warned citizens about the dangers they face in the country.

Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs had already advised against travel to Libya and warned Irish citizens to leave immediately.

- © AFP 2014 with additional reporting by Michelle Hennessy.

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    Jun 25th 2019, 6:06 AM

    I hope they issue the warden with a taser!

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    Jun 25th 2019, 7:27 AM

    @Rodney Williams:
    No.
    The threat of stiff suspended sentences for the first hundred offences will keep the baddies in line!

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    Jun 25th 2019, 8:20 AM

    @Michael Kavanagh: followed by intensive probation.

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    Jun 25th 2019, 10:01 AM

    @Michael Kavanagh:
    Wardens could hand out free “sweeties”, that keep them calm?World gone mad with “rights” these days!
    Except normal law abiding citizens have no rights.

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    Jun 25th 2019, 12:16 PM

    @Rodney Williams: or a bazooka

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    Jun 25th 2019, 7:29 AM

    Regular walk throughs by the Garda would be helpful. I’ve seen middle class teenagers refuse to listen to a warden. The guards improved the area on the south side of the O’Connell Street bridge when they had a regular appearance there.

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    Mute Aidan Kearney, Wicklow CCRO.Leinsterrugby
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    Jun 25th 2019, 8:28 AM

    A great little country to visit yet a minority who are anti social close down a public park? Full time warden with a body webcam is a minimum requirement. Take pride in our city and parks.

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    Jun 25th 2019, 8:40 AM

    Simple solution – open the supervised injection centre on merchants quay. No more open heroin use in nearby public parks.

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    Jun 25th 2019, 1:37 PM

    Area is rife with anti social behaviour, they are deluded if they think a warden will keep it at bay

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    Jun 25th 2019, 12:37 PM

    So wait, they upgraded the park?

    Hi, I’m from outside Dublin. Wtf kind of msg is that? Be antisocial enough and we’ll upgrade your junkie park?

    Country is so centralised it makes me sick

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    Jun 25th 2019, 1:17 PM

    @Artugal: I don’t think the kids are being anti-social with the aim to get the park facilities upgraded…

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