TRIPOLI: A judge was shot dead outside a court in the eastern Libyan city of Derna yesterday, an official said, just weeks after courts resumed work there following the 2011 war.
Assailants killed Mohammed Houidi yesterday morning as he came out of a court in the city, which is known as an Islamist stronghold.
“A car just stopped in front and gunmen fired at him,” Mansour Al Hasadi, a member of Libya’s national assembly from Derna, said. “He died immediately.”
Hasadi said courts in the city had only recently properly resumed work following disruption due to the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi. As with elsewhere in the North African country, state security forces and courts there remain weak.
Reuters
