{"id":393347,"date":"2011-04-24T00:03:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/24\/eight-rebels-killed-in-attack-on-libyan-oil-pumping-station\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T00:03:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:03:20","slug":"eight-rebels-killed-in-attack-on-libyan-oil-pumping-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/eight-rebels-killed-in-attack-on-libyan-oil-pumping-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight rebels killed in attack on Libyan oil pumping station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74.5\">\n<div readability=\"44\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rebels were guarding the station in an opposition-held region near Egyptian border<\/li>\n<li>Only one guard of the nine survived the attack, a medical official says<\/li>\n<li>An opposition spokesman confirms the ambush by Gadhafi loyalists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Tripoli, Libya (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Loyalists to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi killed eight rebel fighters in a rare attack earlier this week in an opposition-held region near the Egyptian border, a medical official and an opposition spokesman told CNN Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The regime loyalists, riding in a convoy of nine vehicles, attacked an oil pumping station in the Libyan desert on Thursday, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) southwest of Tobruk, said Dr. Rida Benfayed, a physician who claimed he treated a rebel fighter injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Tobruk is a rebel stronghold one hour east of the Egyptian border, and site of a key oil exporting facility where the rebels shipped out their first consignment of oil earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Benfayed said the gunmen opened fire on a team of nine rebel military guards manning the pumping station. The regime loyalists set a tire on fire to burn the remains of a senior rebel guard, the doctor said.<\/p>\n<p>The only guard who survived was shot twice in the leg but managed to escape and drive himself to Tobruk where he&#8217;s in stable condition at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition spokesman Ahmed Bani confirmed the attack, which showed the regime&#8217;s capability to strike deep into rebel territory with ambush-style attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Gadhafi) doesn&#8217;t want us to sell the oil,&#8221; Bani said. &#8220;This is a lesson for us. We will take measures to increase security along the pipelines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bani said the pumping station sustained damage in the attack, though the extent wasn&#8217;t immediately clear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/c5ecfooter_google.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit site:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/dWWC9L5jlE8\/index.html\" title=\"Eight rebels killed in attack on Libyan oil pumping station\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eight rebels killed in attack on Libyan oil pumping station<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> STORY HIGHLIGHTS The rebels were guarding the station in an opposition-held region near Egyptian border Only one guard of the nine survived the attack, a medical official says An opposition spokesman confirms the ambush by Gadhafi loyalists Tripoli, Libya (CNN) &#8212; Loyalists to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi killed eight rebel fighters in a rare attack earlier this week in an opposition-held region near the Egyptian border, a medical official and an opposition spokesman told CNN Saturday. The regime loyalists, riding in a convoy of nine vehicles, attacked an oil pumping station in the Libyan desert on Thursday, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) southwest of Tobruk, said Dr. Rida Benfayed, a physician who claimed he treated a rebel fighter injured in the attack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Eight rebels killed in attack on Libyan oil pumping station - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/eight-rebels-killed-in-attack-on-libyan-oil-pumping-station\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Eight rebels killed in attack on Libyan oil pumping station - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"STORY HIGHLIGHTS The rebels were guarding the station in an opposition-held region near Egyptian border Only one guard of the nine survived the attack, a medical official says An opposition spokesman confirms the ambush by Gadhafi loyalists Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Loyalists to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi killed eight rebel fighters in a rare attack earlier this week in an opposition-held region near the Egyptian border, a medical official and an opposition spokesman told CNN Saturday. 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