Tourists and Austrian Nationals Escape Violence in Libya

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Tourists and expatriate workers fleeing Libya speak of scenes of violence and repression as they arrive in the Austrian capital on a flight from Tripoli. Many large companies are now planning to evacuate their employees.

Tourists and expatriate workers who arrived in Vienna on Monday evening on a flight from Tripoli say shooting could be heard even in the Libyan capital during the night on Saturday and Sunday. They say almost the entire town of Gharyan had been evacuated by the police and military, and police barracks in the town were burning.

One Austrian man who was on a tourist tour in Libya said he saw a video in which police were shooting people in the back of the head.

[Herbert Suchy, Austrian Tourist]:
"There was shooting all night, molotov cocktails were thrown onto a neighboring house. We have seen handycam videos where the police were shooting people in the back of the head. Today at 6 a.m. almost the entire town of Gharyan was evacuated by the police and military, everything was set on fire, police barracks were burning. Horrible."

[Zoltan Nagy, Romanian Tourist]:




"We were living in Medina. We had a hotel in Medina in the old centre, the streets are narrow so we had no problem there, but in the city there was shooting in the night. But during the day it was calm where we lived."

When asked if Americans or Europeans had any problems with the pro Gaddafi forces a Croatian businessman said:

[Gjuro Petres, Croatian Businessman]:
"There was no any reaction of the local people or local police, for example, when we were going through the border or sign that they were anti European or anti non-Arabic people, we were treated nicely, " said Gjuro Petres.

Many countries have already urged their citizens to avoid travelling to Libya or recommended that those already there leave on commercial flights.

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