Three Libyans slashed their throats with razors today in apparent suicide attempts to protest the conviction of Libyan secret agent Abel Basset alMegrahi for the Lockerbie airliner bombing, witnesses said.
They were among thousands demonstrating in the centre of Tripoli, outside the United Nations headquarters building, against the verdict handed down on Wednesday by a special Scottish court in the Netherlands.
A witness said one young man fall to the ground, blood spurting from his neck. He was bundled into an ambulance and rushed to hospital.
Other witnesses said two other protesters had cut their throats in the same way to show their anger at what they called a US-inspired guilty verdict. Official could not say immediately what the men's condition was.
Al-Megrahi was sentenced to at least 20 years in a Scottish prison for the bombing which brought down Pan Am flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people. Fellow Libyan Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima was acquitted.
Reuters