Dublin South Independent candidate Buhidma Hussein Hamed confirmed to an election worker that his brother was killed by government forces in Benghazi.
A volunteer with fellow Dublin South candidate Peter Mathews’s campaign said he contacted Mr Hamed to offer his sympathy. In an email to Broadsheet, he wrote: “It is indeed true – I spoke to Hussein this morning and offered him my condolences.”
Mr Hamed, who fled Libya in the 1990s, took part in a rally yesterday in O’Connell Street with his daughter Rukiyah (pictured below, with Mr Hamed at back).
Before today’s news he gave an interview which appeared in this morning’s Irish Times. He said: “My brother told me it is a massacre – they are using anti-aircraft weaponry against unarmed civilians and the hospitals cannot cope with the number injured. He said the international community must do something.”
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