By Ayman Amzein and Maha Sulaiman.
Benghazi, 29 May 2015:
Eight civilians, four of them children, were killed when a shell landed in a . . .[restrict]children’s playground in public park in Benghazi’s Birkah district today. Four adults were also killed in the attack, one of them a 75-year old woman. Another five people were killed in separate random shelling incidents, in Ard Greish and Rabha where a mosque and a school were also hit. At least 11 other were wounded in the attacks.
Three of the children killed in the explosion the playground in Humaida Park were brothers. They have been named as Ibrahim Masoud Al-Ferjani, aged 4, and his brothers Ramadan (7) and Ayyub (5), according to Jalaa Hospital. The other child, a Syrian, has been named as Ehab Hussein. The adults killed were Mustafa Milad Al-Thagit (30), Salha Mukhtar Al-Nuaji (75), Abdulrasul Mohmed Mustafa (46) and Mohamed Biltamer (20)
In Ard Greiash district, a 33-year-old married woman, Fariha Al-Amami, was killed when a shell hit her home. A shell also hit the home in Rahba of 80-year old Abdulsalam Al-Tashani, the relative of a Libya Herald reporter, killing him instantly as he slept.
Others killed whose bodies were transferred to Benghazi Medical Centre (BMC) have been named as Salem Kilani, Sufian Mohammed and Muftah Hamad Belgassem.
A BMC source told this newspaper that the number of fatalities was expected to rise because some of the wounded who had arrived there and at Jalaa Hospital were in critical condition.
It is not known who fired the shell, but Ansar Al-Sharia and its allies in the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council are suspected. They have been accused of deliberately firing into residential areas to cause maximum suffering to the people of Benghazi who do not support them. [/restrict]
