Arson suspected as Libyan poll office hit by fire
Members of the Libyan special forces perform after completing their training for the upcoming election, in Tripoli July 4, 2012. Libyans head to the polls on July 7 to elect a national assembly in the nation's first election in a generation almost a year after ousting Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed rebellion.
Image by: ANIS MILI / REUTERS
Image by: ANIS MILI / REUTERS
The main storage centre for election materials in the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya caught fire on Thursday in a suspected arson attack two days before a July 7 parliamentary election, eyewitnesses and a security source said.
The security source said the storage centre contained ballots and other election equipment and that the event was being investigated as a suspected arson attack.
Protesters demanding greater powers for Libya's eastern region stormed an election commission office in the city of Benghazi last weekend.
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