By Ahmed Elumami.
Tripoli, 15 November 2013:
As the butcher’s bill for the fighting in Gharghour rose this evening to 13 dead and . . .[restrict]114 wounded, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan called on both sides to stop shooting and allow investigators to find out what had caused the bloody gun battle.
Flanked by health minister Nureddin Dughman and culture minister Habib Al-Amin, Zeidan told a press conference just after 9pm, that the protestors had originally been given permission to demonstrate in front of the Al-Quds mosque. But they had then moved to the Gharghour.
Zeiden nevertheless said that the demonstration had been legal. He revealed that some members of the interior ministry, the police and the army, who had accompanied the demonstrators, had been in civilian clothes.
The health minister said that according to the latest information he had received, there were at least 13 dead and 114 people injured in the fighting.
Zeidan called on the media and anyone of influence to do their best to calm, not inflame the situation. He also repeated his determination to implement Laws 27 and 53, which call for the removal of all illegal armed formations from the capital, Benghazi and other cities. [/restrict]
