Newspaper editor’s flat hit by RPG – no injuries

Tripoli, 16 January 2014:

The flat of a newspaper editor was yesterday hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). No-one was injured in . . .[restrict]the attack, which took place in the early hours of the morning.

Editor of local newspaper The New Libya Mahmoud Masrati said that the RPG detonated outside the flat when it hit a reinforced concrete pillar, according to Libyan news agency LANA.

Masrati said he had previously received threatening text messages and that the newspaper premises had also been vandalised. He said he would continue his work, regardless of such threats and attacks. [/restrict]