Tripoli erupts in protests over power cuts with calls to topple government

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Protests erupted across Tripoli over extended power outages amid extreme heat, with demonstrators blocking roads and government buildings. The unrest expanded to calls for the removal of both eastern and western Libyan governments.

Demonstrators blocked roads, shut state institutions and sealed off government buildings as temperatures reached up to 50 degrees Celsius and daily blackouts stretched to 14 hours. The protests quickly widened into demands for the removal of governments in both eastern and western Libya.