Geolocation
Airwars assessment
At least 21 people, including at least three men, were killed and two men were injured in a detention facility run by the Revolutionary Guard in Gargur, south of Bab Al-Aziziyah, on August 23, 2011 according to UN Report Source Page 72.
According to witnesses and family members, most of those being held in the detention facility had been arrested on the 18 & 19 of August 2011 in Tripoli. In the top floor of the building, 14 detainees were held for five days without receiving any food and only water in the evenings. On August 23, 2011 witnesses heard gunfire and found the bodies of 21 people, with only two men still alive.
Names of those killed:
Ihab Abdul Hamid bin Al-Sheikh, born 1986
Khalifa Abd al-Rahman al-Daghra, a student of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer Department, born in 1988
Abd al-Salam Abdullah al-Muqlash
The local time of the incident is unknown.
The victims were named as:
Summary
Sources (6) [ collapse]
Media
from sources (3) [ collapse]
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Ihab Abdul Hamid bin Al-Sheikh, killed August 23, 2011
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Khalifa Abd al-Rahman al-Daghra, killed August 23, 2011
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Abd al-Salam al-Muqlash, killed August 23, 2011
Geolocation notes (1) [ collapse]
Reports of the incident mention the area of Gharghour (غرغور), for which the generic coordinates are: 32.863772, 13.166964. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.