A spokesman for the joint security room of Libya's city of Benghazi, Ibrahim al-Shara, said on Tuesday that unidentified gunmen kidnapped Egyptian workers in Sidi Younes, Monday, and that the Libyan authorities were searching for them.
He added that gunmen in a white Toyota car fired bullets over the heads of workers in Sidi Younis and kidnspped two to an unknown place.
The kidnapping was most probably to steal the workers' property or to force them work for free, he added.
In related news, 12 Egyptian workers out of 70 arrived in Cairo coming from Libya on Tuesday morning. Seventy Egyptians have been held by the Libyan authorities since Thursday to check their entry documents to Libya. Security sources at Cairo International Airport said the workers arrived on an Egyptian plane coming from Tripoli.
They said during interrogations they had been abducted by masked men Thursday. Workers added they were taken to a police battalion in Tripoli, then they were transferred to another one after their money and mobile phones had been seized, the sources added.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
