AFP
December 5, 2013
An American teacher was shot dead in Benghazi on Thursday, 15 months after a deadly attack on the US consulate in Libya’s second city, medical and security officials said.
The dead man was a US citizen who taught at the city’s international school, security services spokesman Ibrahim al-Sharaa said.
He was shot dead as he was taking his morning jog in the central Al-Fwihet neighbourhood of the city, Sharaa said.
The body of a 33-year-old US citizen who had died of gunshot wounds was brought in to the Benghazi Medical Centre, its spokesman Khalil Gwider said.
Benghazi international school director Adel al-Mansuri said the slain American had taught chemistry since late last year.
In other violence in the increasingly lawless eastern city on Thursday, two Libyan soldiers were shot dead in separate incidents, the latest of dozens of security personnel to be gunned down in recent weeks, security officials said.