Executions televised
NZPA-Reuter London Libyan television broadcast the execution of nine people yesterday — six by hanging and three by firing squad — and said some of those killed had plotted .to assassinate “Soviet experts” in Libya. The broadcast, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, did not make clear whether any of the assassination plots had succeeded. One of the six who were hanged had taken part in “a number of meetings with the intention of assassinating Soviet experts,” the Libyan broadcast said. Another knew of the group’s intention to assassinate Soviet experts and yet another had been selected, “together with a group,” to carry out the killings. The three executed by firing squad were identified as military personnel.
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