Tripoli: An adviser to Libyan Prime Minister
Ali Zeidan was grabbed from his car by unknown assailants on the
outskirts of Tripoli on Sunday evening, a government source said.
Mohammad Ali Gatous, in his
50s, was seized after passing a checkpoint into the eastern Tripoli
suburb of Tajoura. A source at Zeidan’s office said Gatous was a senior
adviser to the prime minister.
“Nobody knows where he is. They left his car behind, probably they thought it could be traced,” he said.
Gatous had last spoken to his family by mobile phone from his car before he was taken. An investigation is under way.
Since the end of the 2011 uprising that
toppled Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s new rulers have struggled to control
myriad armed groups who refuse to lay down their weapons and often take
the law into their own hands.
Last week, five British
nationals who were part of an aid convoy passing through Libya on the
way to Gaza were briefly kidnapped by an armed group, and one was
sexually assaulted in the eastern city of Benghazi, security officials
said.
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