The Count was under way Thursday in a Libyan general election overshadowed by deadly violence in second city Benghazi, including the killing of a leading women's rights activist. The first results were expected as early as later Thursday, organisers said, from an election the authorities hope will pave a way out of the turmoil that has gripped the country since the 2011 ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Masked men broke into the home of liberal activist Salwa Bugaighis in Benghazi, an Islamist bastion, just hours after polls closed Wednesday evening in an attack that drew international condemnation. "Mrs Bugaighis was stabbed in several parts of her body but the cause of death was a bullet wound to the head," said a spokesman for the Benghazi Medical Centre.
06-28-2014, 04:01 PM
Count under way in Libya vote clouded by deadly attacks
The Count was under way Thursday in a Libyan general election overshadowed by deadly violence in second city Benghazi, including the killing of a leading women's rights activist. The first results were expected as early as later Thursday, organisers said, from an election the authorities hope will pave a way out of the turmoil that has gripped the country since the 2011 ouster of dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Masked men broke into the home of liberal activist Salwa Bugaighis in Benghazi, an Islamist bastion, just hours after polls closed Wednesday evening in an attack that drew international condemnation. "Mrs Bugaighis was stabbed in several parts of her body but the cause of death was a bullet wound to the head," said a spokesman for the Benghazi Medical Centre.
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