Alnabaa TV Channel reported the spokesman of the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) Mohammed Al-Dakouri as saying that an official in eastern Libya was shot at by unknown gunmen on Thursday, but he managed to escape.

Al-Dakouri added that this murder attempt against Osama Saleh, who heads the electric energy security office in Al-Batnan area, came after he seized aluminum and brass cables after being stolen from the GECOL and were en route to be smuggled, sending as well the criminals to justice. 

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