Two members of Libya’s interim parliament have been shot and wounded by protesters who stormed the General National Congress in downtown Tripoli, officials and witnesses said.
“Two (GNC) members were hit by bullets when they tried to leave the venue in their cars,” Nuri Abu Sahmein, the parliament speaker, told Al-Nabaa, blaming “armed protesters” for the shooting.
Dozens of angry protesters entered the General National Congress (GNC) on Sunday, with some of them rampaging through the building, witnesses said.
The protesters demanded the dissolution of the GNC and railed against the overnight “kidnapping” of demonstrators from a sit-in outside the parliament building.
They later attacked and “abused” the deputies, GNC spokesman Omar Hmidan said on Al-Nabaa television, adding the officials’ cars had been destroyed.
One member of the GNC told AFP that the protesters, mostly young people armed with knives and sticks, entered the premises chanting “Resign, resign”, Al Jazeera informs.
