Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Fifteen Dead as Gaddafi Snipers Open Fire on Mourners

Nothing gets lower than this.  Hundreds of mourners came to commemorate the lives of murdered protesters that lost their lives on Saturday.  As they mourned, Libyan snipers opened fire on the crowed, killing at least fifteen and injuring dozens more.
Geo has more:
"Many of the dead and the injured are relatives of doctors here," an official at the local hospital told The Associated Press. "They are crying and I keep telling them to please stand up and help us."  
Saturday's killings pushed the overall death toll to 99 as Gadhafi's forces crack down hard on protesters calling for an end to his more than 40 years of autocratic rule.  
"The blood of our martyrs is still leaking from coffins over the shoulders of the mourners," one protester told The Associated Press, as she stood beside about 20 coffins in Benghazi.

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