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Gunmen attack mosque in Tripoli

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Source: AFP

Tripoli - A group of more than 200 heavily armed gunmen attacked a mosque in the Libyan capital and ransacked the tombs of two imams, witnesses said on Monday.

"They arrived shortly after 22:00 , between 200 and 300 of them, in pickups fitted with heavy machineguns. They took off at about 1:00 am," said Mahmud Rahman, a resident of Tripoli's northeastern Al-Masri district.

"They forced open the mosque's door and then started to dig up the tombs of imams Abdel Rahman el-Masri and Salem Abu Seif, and made off with their relics," said Rahman.

An AFP journalist, visiting the mosque and its adjoining Koranic school, said Muslim holy books had been burnt.

Read more: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Gunmen-attack-mosque-in-Tripoli-20111010

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