Armed men in trucks with anti-aircraft guns mounted on them surrounded the Libyan Foreign Ministry in Tripoli early Sunday and are refusing to allow ministry staff from entering the building, a ministry official said.
The men are demanding the office be cleansed of loyalists to ousted Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, said the official, who refused to be named for security reasons.
Ministry staff are being intimidated, and most have turned back, the source said.
Witnesses reported seeing more than a dozen gun trucks on roads leading to the ministry that have been closed off.
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