Libya to pay 35 million dollars for Berlin disco bombing

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TRIPOLI : Libya signed a deal to pay 35 million dollars (about 28 million euros) in compensation to mainly German victims of a Berlin nightclub bombing 18 years ago, an AFP correspondent said.

The deal, which was drafted on August 10, was signed by the secretary general of Libya's Gaddafi Foundation and a group of German lawyers led by Hans Joachim Ehrig.

The 1986 bombing at the "La Belle" discotheque, which was frequented by US servicemen, in then West Berlin killed two GIs and a Turkish woman and wounded more than 250 people.

Turkish and Libyan casualties of the blast are also to receive compensation under the deal but not the families of two American victims.

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