3 Koreans hurt in Tripoli riot

By Kang Hyun-kyung

Three South Koreans have been injured in Tripoli, the capital city of Libya, after hundreds of angry protestors there raided a Korean builder’s construction site, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Monday.

This is the fourth such attack on a Korean firm operating in Libya this year.

The ministry said one of the Koreans was seriously wounded after being stabbed during a standoff. But the details of the victim’s condition were not known.

It added that protestors, who were armed with guns and swords, beat the workers up.

The raid on the firm’s construction site in Tripoli came days after demonstrators stormed the construction site and nearby workers’ dormitory of a Korean builder in the eastern city of Darnah.

No casualties were reported after the incidents there, but construction material, computers and heavy equipment were looted.

As an increasing number of Korean firms are being attacked, the foreign ministry sent a team of officials to Libya to monitor the situation there.

The ministry has teamed up with the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs and the presidential office to cope with the worsening conditions.

리비아에서 한국인 3명 부상

반정부 시위가 격화되고 있는 리비아에서 한국 건설업체가 지난주에 이어 다시 습격을 받아 한국인 3명이 부상을 당했다. 이번 습격이 이루어진 곳은 리비아의 수도인 트리폴리.

뱅가지 등 리비아 동부 도시들에서 일어난 시위가 주말에 수도인 트리폴리까지 번지면서 현지 진출한 한국 건설업체들의 피해가 뒤따르고 있다.

리비아 사태가 격화되자 정부는 관계부처간 회의를 소집해 대응책을 강구하고 있다.