An attack at the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, in the Libyan city of Misurata left no casualties but a man, the son of the owner of the offices, who is living in the compound was injured, Tripoli Post reports.
A spokesman for the ICRC spokesman said: “The ICRC confirms that an explosion occurred in our Misurata office at 3.50 am on June 12. The nature of the explosion is not verified yet, but the authorities were informed and were on site early at five in the morning.”
Though nobody has as yet claimed responsibility for the attack, a group calling itself the Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman Brigade claimed it carried a similar attack last month on the ICRC headquarters in Benghazi.
The group is named after an Egyptian known in the Arab world as “the blind sheikh” who is serving a life sentence in the US in connection with the bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York in 1993.
A few days ago, on June 2, the group issued a statement accusing the ICRC of Christian evangelistic activities in Libya, ordered the aid group to remove all “Christian” signs from its material and cease any evangelistic activity.
The ICRC’s mission statement says it is “an impartial, neutral and independent organisation” with an “exclusively humanitarian mission”.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Attack on Red Cross Office in Libia
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