Posts Tagged ‘ tripoli ’

Hundreds feared dead off coast of Libya

March 31, 2009

Hundreds of people were feared dead on Tuesday after high winds and heavy seas capsized boats carrying African migrants heading for Europe off the coast of Libya. “A tragedy has happened off the Libyan coast with at least two boats going down … with obviously hundreds of people going down at sea,” Jean-Philippe Chauzy...
Read more »

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Middle East, Sea Tragedy | No Comments »

Deadly explosion rocks Lebanese city

September 29, 2008

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN — A blast targeting a bus carrying Lebanese soldiers went off near an entrance to the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 30 others, a high-ranking member of the country’s internal security forces told CNN. The explosion occurred along the side of the...
Read more »

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Bomb Blast, Middle East | No Comments »