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10 dead at a checkpoint at Tripoli exit
Associated Timeline/Case:
Old Wars, New Wars | January, 1983 to December, 1988
Date of incident:
September 27, 1985
Death toll:
10persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
September 27, 1985: Armed men were stopping cars leaving Tripoli. They stopped two cars close to the Bahsass bakery, let the women out, and then took 10 men out (including a father and his three sons). They lined the men up against a wall, and shot them.
Primary category:
Murder
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