{Libya’s deputy industry minister, Hassan al-Droui, was shot dead during a visit to his hometown of Sirte, east of Tripoli, security and hospital sources said.}<\/p>\n
The identity of the shooters was not immediately known, but the official’s death was the first assassination of a member of the transitional government since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s government in October 2011.<\/p>\n
Droui was killed near Mekmdas market in central Sirte after evening prayers on Sunday, media coordinator for the Tripoli Security Directorate, Essam Naas, confirmed to local newspaper, Libya Herald.<\/p>\n
“Hassan al-Droui, the deputy minister for industry, was killed by unknown attackers overnight, during a visit to his native city of Sirte,” a security official told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
“Unidentified gunmen sprayed bullets on Mr Droui in central Sirte,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
An official at the city’s Ibn Sina hospital confirmed the deputy minister’s death and added that he had suffered bullet wounds to several parts of his body.<\/p>\n
Droui was a former member of the National Transitional Council, the political arm of the rebellion that brought an end to Gaddafi’s 42-year rule.<\/p>\n
He was appointed deputy minister for industry by the transitional government’s first prime minister, Abdelrahim al-Kib, and kept his job when Ali Zeidan took over.<\/p>\n
Droui’s hometown, which lies on the Mediterranean coast about 400 kilometres east of the capital Tripoli, was the last government bastion to fall into rebel hands in 2011.<\/p>\n
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