Relatives of seven Egyptians killed in a beach react outside the morgue in Benghazi February 24, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Seven Egyptian Christians were found shot dead on a beach in eastern Libya after they were abducted from their apartments, security officials and local residents said, in the second such execution-style killing this year.
Three years after the revolution that ousted Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's weak government and army is struggling to impose state authority and control brigades of former rebels and Islamist militias in a country awash with weapons.
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