By Noora Ibrahim.
Benghazi, 1 February 2014:
Two men who were targeted in separate assassination attempts in Benghazi have died in hospital.
Retired police colonel Abdel Fatteh Barasi, who was shot in the head yesterday and rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition, has died in Benghazi Medical Centre. He underwent emergency surgery but doctors were unable to save him.
Another man, Zachariah Al-Adressi, who sustained gunshot wounds on Thursday night has also died in hospital. Adressi was injured in a shooting incident on Benghazi’s Sharia Ashreen, which also killed his friend, Saleh Abdul Razag Spak, the son of a member of the Benghazi Special Forces.