利比亚运钞车被劫损失5400万美元_时事要闻

利比亚运钞车被劫损失5400万美元

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Libya's state news agency says gunmen have stolen $54m in an attack on a van carrying foreign and local currency for the Libyan central bank.

利比亚国家新闻机构称，持枪歹徒洗劫了利比亚央行一辆装载外币与本国货币的厢式货车，损失共计5400万美元。

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Rebel fighters celebrate the fall of Sirte two years ago. Lawlessness has been rife across Libya since then

Ten men stopped the van as it entered the city of Sirte from the airport. The cash delivery had been flown 300 miles (500km) from the capital, Tripoli.

"The robbery is a catastrophe² for the whole of Libya," Abdel-Fattah Mohammed, head of Sirte council, told Reuters.

Libya has suffered continuing lawlessness since the 2011 civil war.

Guards 'overpowered'

Libya's government has been struggling to keep control of a country full of armed militias³, gangs and radical⁴ Islamists.

Reports on Monday suggested that only one security vehicle had been assigned to protect the van.

Security guards "were unable to resist the 10 attackers", the Lana news agency reported.

Some 53m Libyan dinars were taken, along with another $12m in US dollars and euros.

Two banks in Sirte were hit by robbers in July, a city official told the AFP news agency.

The attackers made off with 500,000 Libyan dinars, he said.

Sirte was the last bastion of support for Col Muammar Gaddafi in the conflict that led to his overthrow⁵.

However the city has largely been spared the wave of violence that has swept since then.

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1 rife
adj.(指坏事情)充斥的，流行的，普遍的
参考例句：
Disease is rife in the area.疾病在这一区很流行。 Corruption was rife before the election.选举之前腐败盛行。

2 catastrophe
n.大灾难，大祸
参考例句：
I owe it to you that I survived the catastrophe.亏得你我才大难不死。 This is a catastrophe beyond human control.这是一场人类无法控制的灾难。

3 militias
n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )
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The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。来自辞典例句 The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。来自互联网

4 radical
n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的
参考例句：
The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。 She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

5 overthrow
v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆
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After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。 The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

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