Benghazi, 25 January 2013:
A Benghazi hospital has closed temporarily following a murder on the premises last night. The man was undergoing . . .[restrict]surgery at the city’s Al-Jalah hospital when armed men came in and killed him.
Doctors staff walked out in protest, saying that they cannot work without proper security.
The incident is not thought to be connected to the wave of political killings that have contributed to the city’s present insecurity. It is being described as purely “criminal”.
The dead man has not be named, however, it is being reported in Benghazi that he was the prime suspect in the killing earlier in the day of a woman in the Old Town and that he was taken to the hospital requiring medical attention after police used teargas to subdue and arrest him. It is said that his killers were members of his victim’s family.
There was another another brutal slaying in the city yesterday. In Sabri district, three brothers and the wife of one of them were killed in a family argument.
The killing occurred when one of the brothers, allegedly a drug user, killed his two brothers and his sister-in-law. He was then killed in a shootout with the police who arived to arrest him.
One unconfirmed report, however, links the two incidents, stating that the Sabri killer was wounded but not killed in the shootout, was then taken to Al Jalah hospital and there killed by the woman’s family.
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