The US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff have been reported killed by an armed angry mob that stormed and set fire to the United States consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
An armed man waves his rifle as
buildings and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside
the US consulate compound in Benghazi Photo: AFP/Getty Images
The death of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was reported by Reuters,
who had spoken to a Libyan official. It had not been confirmed.
It was not clear if the ambassador was in his car or the Libyan consulate when
the attack occurred.
"The Libyan ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen
fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters.
US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens (AFP/Getty Images)
The attack on Tuesday night followed another earlier in the day on the American embassy in Cairo, in which no-one was injured but the flag was taken down and torn up and replaced with the black flag used by radicals.
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