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whether mourners began throwing stones first or the soldiers from Katiba opened fire without provocation. In the end another 24 people from the opposition forces were killed. Following the massacre, two policemen, who were accused of shooting the protestors, were hanged by the opposition. [12] Police and army personnel later withdrew from the city after being overwhelmed by protesters. Some army personnel joined the protesters and helped them seize the local state-controlled radio station. [13] In al-Baida, unconfirmed reports indicated that local police and riot control units joined the protesters. [14] By the end of the 18th, the only place that still housed a significant number of Gaddafi loyalists in Benghazi was the Katiba compound. On 19 February, another funeral procession passed the Katiba compound en route to the cemetery in an act of defiance and were again fired upon by Gaddafi loyalists in the compound. By this time, some 325 mercenaries from southern Africa [verification needed] were flown into Benghazi and other towns in the east to help restore order. During the 18th and 19th, there were major retaliatory attacks by the opposition forces against the mercenaries. 50 African mercenaries were executed by the protesters in al-Baida. Some died when protestors burned down the police station in which they locked them up and 15 were lynched in front of the courthouse in al-Baida. [4][15] The bodies of some of them were put on display and caught on video. [16][17] Following the second attack on a funeral, opposition forces commandeered bulldozers and tried to breach the walls of the Katiba compound, often retreating under heavy fire. As the fighting continued, a mob attacked a local army base on the outskirts of Benghazi and forced the soldiers to give up their weapons, including three small tanks. Opposition members then rammed those tanks into the Katiba compound's walls. Days later, the burned hulks of the armored vehicles could still be seen, stuck halfway into the breaches they made. End The fighting stopped on the morning of the 20th. Another 30 people were killed during the previous 24 hours of fighting. A third funeral procession passed the Katiba compound. Under the cover of the funeral, a suicide car-bomber attacked the compound's gates, blowing them up. [18] Opposition fighters resumed their assault on the base, this time with reinforcements from al-Baida and Derna. During the final attack on the compound 42 people were killed. In the afternoon, Libyan Interior Minister Abdul Fatah Younis showed up with a special forces squad called the "Thunderbolt" to relieve the besieged barracks. Troops from his unit, based on the outskirts of town, arrived at the opposite side of the Katiba armed with machine guns and driving trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns. Two tanks under Younes's command followed. However, Younis defected to the opposition and granted safe passage to Gaddafi's loyalists out of the city. [5] Gaddafi's troops evacuated but not before killing soldiers who refused to open fire on the opposition. Some 130 rebel soldiers were killed in Benghazi and al-Baida. Casualties 110 [5] -257 [19] opposition members were killed in Benghazi. In addition, another 63 opposition members were killed in al- Baida and 29 in Derna. [8] Also, 130 rebelling soldiers were reported to be executed by government forces. [9] An estimated total of 332- 479 members of the opposition forces died during the fighting in Benghazi, al-Baida and Derna. Another 1,932 were wounded. [20] 111 soldiers loyal to Gaddafi were also killed. [21] Of the 325 mercenaries sent to the east to quell the uprising's initial phase, it was reported that 50 were captured and executed by the opposition, [4][22] and at least 236 were captured alive. [4][23] The fate of the others was unknown. 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