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The head of the Zawia Security Directorate was kidnapped outside the Prime Minister's office and held for several hours in Tripoli, then was released after intervention by the first deputy prime minister and the acting interior minister. A 77-year-old man and the young son of a newspaper editor were kidnapped in separate incidents in Benghazi. A bomb damaged a courthouse in southern Benghazi and seriously injured two security guards. New Zealand refuted reports that arrests were made in the killing of a New Zealander and a Briton in Sabratha.