Libyan PM Ali Zeidan 'freed from captivity'
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released hours after being seized by militiamen, say government sources.
A former rebel group loosely allied to the government, the Revolutionaries Operations Room, said it had arrested Mr Zeidan on the orders of the prosecutor general.
The justice ministry had denied this.
The militia was one of several groups angered by a US commando raid on Libyan soil on Saturday which seized senior al-Qaeda suspect Anas al-Liby.
Many saw the raid as a breach of Libyan sovereignty amid growing pressure on the government to explain if it was involved.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan seized from a hotel in Tripoli and taken to unknown location, government website reports. |
Armed men have kidnapped Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in Tripoli, the Prime Minister's website reported.
Abu Dhabi-based Sky News Arabia quoted Libyan security sources as saying that Zeidan was seized from a hotel where he was staying in the Libyan capital and taken to an unknown destination.
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Abu Dhabi-based Sky News Arabia quoted Libyan security sources as saying that Zeidan was seized from a hotel where he was staying in the Libyan capital and taken to an unknown destination. Dubai-based al-Arabiya carried a similar report.
Al-Arabiya TV station broadcast images which showed Mr Zeidan looking dishevelled and being escorted by what the station said were armed men.
The government website said he had been taken "to an unknown place for unknown reasons by a group thought to be from the Tripoli Revolutionaries Control Room and the Committee for Fighting Crime".
The government statement did not name the hotel, but a woman at the Corinthia Hotel - where the prime minister lives - confirmed the incident happened there when armed men entered the building.
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