Fresh clashes after Libyan city buries dead

TRIPOLI: Security forces in Libya's second city, Benghazi, fired up in the air on Saturday to scatter a crowd grief protesters murder in the worst unrest of Muammar Gaddafi's four decades in power, a resident said.

Human Rights Watch said 35 people were murder in the city late on Friday, in the worst night of aggression since protests started this week to try to imitate uprisings in neighboring Egypt and Tunisia.

Reflect the pattern of fighting on previous days in the city, a large crowd got into a confrontation with security forces after a memorial service march to bury people killed in the crackdown, a resident told Reuters.

"They tried to attack the security forces but when they heard shots fired in the air they ran away," said the man, who did not want to be identified.

The New York-based watchdog said its tally for the number of dead was now 84 after three days of violence centered on the restless region around Benghazi, 1,000 km (600 miles) east of the capital Tripoli.

Benghazi cleric Abellah al-Warfali told Qatar-based Al Jazeera television that he had a list of 16 people being buried on Saturday, most with bullet wounds to the head and chest.