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Fears Sydney Muslim leader killed supporting rebel uprising in Libya
Libyan National Transitional Council fighters help a wounded comrade to a field hospital in Sirte where fierce street fighting has erupted and where relatives fear Sydney Muslim leader Sheikh Naser Zuway has been killed. Source: AFP
A SYDNEY Muslim leader is feared dead in Libya.
Australian relatives of Sheikh Naser Zuway, the president of the Australian Union of Africa and Arab Associations, has reportedly been killed while supporting the rebel uprising in the city of Sirte.
Islamic Friendship Association spokesman Keysar Trad, a long-time friend of Sheikh Zuway, said the family of the Sydney cleric had been informed of his death yesterday morning.
"The information that I have is that one of his uncles contacted his cousins in Sydney to say that he had been killed and the body was being sent to their town in the precinct of Benghazi," Mr Trad said.
He said the family accepted the information as being true, but had no further details.
It is unclear whether his wife and three children are safe.
His Australian relatives were yet to confirm whether Sheikh Zuway’s body had arrived as planned after a seven hour journey from Sirte.
Mr Trad said Sheikh Zuway, who he met in 1999 after he was released from immigration detention in Australia, had travelled to Libya to be with his family who had been trapped in the country while on holiday.
He decided to stay on and help the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, arranging for medicine shipments from Turkey, Mr Trad said.
He said a condolence ceremony would be held at the Lakemba community centre which had been home to Sheikh Zuway’s Union of Africa and Arab Associations.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was investigating reports an Australian man had been killed in Libya.
