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Two ferries braved rough seas Thursday to evacuate 4,500 Chinese workers from Libya's eastern port of Benghazi, but high winds to the west left hundreds of Americans stranded on a docked ferry in Tripoli.
As tens of thousands of foreigners sought to flee the turmoil in Libya, Britain pondered whether to send in its military to evacuate oil workers stranded in remote sites by fierce fighting in the North African nation.
Those who made it out of Libya described a frightening scene with bodies hanging from electricity poles in Benghazi and militia trucks driving loaded up with the dead. In the capital of Tripoli, witnesses said the airport was a madhouse, crammed with desperate people who stampeded any open door
4,500 Chinese escape Libya by sea; Americans stuck - FoxNews.com
As tens of thousands of foreigners sought to flee the turmoil in Libya, Britain pondered whether to send in its military to evacuate oil workers stranded in remote sites by fierce fighting in the North African nation.
Those who made it out of Libya described a frightening scene with bodies hanging from electricity poles in Benghazi and militia trucks driving loaded up with the dead. In the capital of Tripoli, witnesses said the airport was a madhouse, crammed with desperate people who stampeded any open door
4,500 Chinese escape Libya by sea; Americans stuck - FoxNews.com