128 US embassy personnel leave Tunisia
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128 diplomats and members of the U. S. embassy in Tunis have left the country for Washington, Shems FM reported on Sunday.
The move comes one day after the U.S. State Department ordered non-essential diplomatic staff and their families to leave Tunisia and Sudan. It also warned U.S. nationals not to travel to those countries where anti-American protests broke out over a film that insults the Prophet Mohammed.
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Hundreds of Tunisian protesters attack the U.S. embassy in Tunisia on September 14, 2012. |
According to the latest death toll, four people were killed and 48 injured when angry mobs attacked the U.S. embassy compound on Friday. A nearby American school was also torched and looted.
Washington was shocked to learn the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other envoys on Tuesday night, when hundreds of angry protesters broke into and set ablaze the U.S. consulate building in Benghazi in eastern Libya.
President Barack Obama has ordered boosted security for American diplomatic posts around the world, and sent security forces to both Libya and Yemen.
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