Libyans storm Manila embassy
Libyan national Elyosa Fathi Elgardag, right, and an unidentified companion talk to the Associated Press before storming the Libyan Embassy in Makati City Thursday. AP
MANILA, Philippines—Two enraged Libyan students have barged into their embassy in Makati City to try to evict diplomats they suspect remain loyal to former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
AP reporters saw the students scale the embassy’s steel gate and then scuffle with guards. They broke open a wooden door and tried to look for two of four Libyan diplomats inside they accuse of remaining loyal to Gadhafi.
Libyan Elyosa Fathi Elgardag said he planned to drag the two alleged Gadhafi loyalists out of “our embassy.”
The students were still inside the embassy Thursday afternoon.
The embassy last month raised the rebel flag.
