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Protesters storm Libya's interim parliament
Al Arabiya English reports Libyan MPs injured.
According to a Twitter post, this chair tied to a lamppost belongs to the Speaker of Libya's General National Congress.
Dozens of protesters on Sunday stormed Libya's interim parliament, the General National Congress, with some of them rampaging through the building, media repot.
According to Al Arabiya English sources, some Libyan MPs have been injured.
#BreakingNews Sources: Some Libyan MPs injured as protesters storm parliament — Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) March 2, 2014
Son of Libya congress member Abdurrahman Swehli tells me his father is in hospital after being shot during disturbances at congress building — Mary Fitzgerald (@MaryFitzger) March 2, 2014
Chair of #GNC speaker on a light post strung up https://t.co/lcAJIoEgMM pic.twitter.com/GuZdmljr0o — LibyanYouthMovement (@ShababLibya) March 2, 2014
3 #GNC members injured after demonstrators stormed #GNC hall #Tripoli #Libya — Mohanid Elghadi مهند (@MElghadi) March 2, 2014
AFP has repored that protesters demanded the dissolution of the GNC and railed against the "kidnapping" overnight of demonstrators from a sit-in outside the parliament.
In a brief statement, the justice ministry denounced the abduction "of youths who were expressing their views."
Earlier protesters said gunmen had broken up the sit-in on Saturday night before detaining some of them, without being able to give a figure.
"Armed men came firing in the air and they set fire to a tent set up by demonstrators" in front of the GNC, Libya's highest political authority, said protester Milad Al-Arbi.
On Sunday, residents blocked roads in the area to demand the release of those held.
According to demonstrators, the gunmen belonged to the Operations Cell of Libyan Revolutionaries, a former rebel group which operates under the GNC's command.
The Congress, elected after the 2011 revolution which ousted Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, has stirred popular anger by extending its mandate, which was due to expire in early February, until the end of December.
Under pressure from demonstrators, the GNC has announced that early elections will be held but without setting a date.
