BENGHAZI: A Libyan soldier was shot dead and a civilian wounded by a bomb under his car in separate attacks in the eastern city of Benghazi yesterday, medics and security sources said.
“A soldier from the Libyan army was killed and a civilian was seriously wounded,” a security source said. The soldier belonged to the Saiqa special forces unit and was shot five times by unknown attackers. Later, the 23-year-old son of a senior navy officer was seriously wounded by a bomb placed underneath his car in the city centre.
The victim’s father, Commander Rafaa Al Awami is in Russia for training and had recently received threats, a security source said, without elaborating. Surgeons had to amputate the young man’s foot, said Fadia Aal Barghathi, spokeswoman for the city’s Al Jala hospital.
Britain extradites Algeria ex-tycoon
ALGIERS: Rafik Khalifa, a former Algerian tycoon who once owned an airline and a string of companies, was extradited to his homeland from Britain yesterday, Algeria’s APS news agency reported.
He took refuge in Britain in 2003 when his business collapsed, costing the Algerian state and individuals between $1.5bn and $5bn (¤1.1bn and 3.6bn).
In 2007, Algeria convicted him in absentia of criminal involvement and fraud, sentencing him to life in prison and demanding his extradition. Britain’s Home Office said last week that Khalifa had been refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court on December 3 and would be extradited within 28 days of that date.
Agencies
