Tripoli, 29 June 2013:
By Tom Westcott and Umar Khan.
In the early hours of this morning the Pakistani embassy in Tripoli was . . .[restrict]targeted by what was thought to be hand grenade, which exploded outside the main entrance.
“Around 1 am somebody hurled a hand grenade towards the main gate,” the Pakistani Ambassador, Mohammed Ayaz Hussain, told the Libya Herald. The device, he said, hit and damaged the gates but did not fall inside the compound.
“There has been no damage other than that and no human or material losses,” Hussain said.
“This is the first time such a blast has happened here,” a spokesperson for the embassy told the Libya Herald. “We cannot say anything much at this stage,” he said, “and we are unable to understand the reason for the attack.” He added, however, that the embassy would be beefing up its security in light of the attack.
The Pakistani embassy is in the Sharqia district of Tripoli, where a number of other embassies is also located.
The attack is being investigated and CCTV footage inspected. [/restrict]
