27 dead in Libya protests

Anti-regime protests in eastern Libya cost the lives of at least 20 people in Benghazi and seven in Derna, the website of Oea newspaper, close to leader Moamer Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, reported Friday. It said 20 people were buried in Libya's second city of Benghazi on Friday, whereas a previous toll supplied by a medical source in the city was 14 dead.
In Derna, east of Benghazi, the paper said seven people were killed in protests: five were buried on Friday and the other two bodies were still in the hospital. The new toll takes the reported number of people killed since demonstrations began in Libya on Tuesday to 41, according to an AFP count compiled by different local sources.