Local residents have withdrawn from a South Korean construction site in Libya days following their break-in into the work site and dorms apparently in protest of the government's housing policy, the foreign ministry said Sunday.
About 200 local residents forced their way into the South Korean construction site in Derna in eastern Libya at around midnight Thursday (local time) and then stormed into a nearby dormitory on Friday night.
After the intrusion, about 70 Korean workers evacuated to a nearby Muslim school.
The name of the South Korean company involved was not made public.
According to the South Korean foreign ministry, the mob broke up at 7 p.m. on Saturday and left the site. The Korean workers who had fled the site returned to a building some 8 kilometers away from their workplace.
The attackers set fire to part of the dorms and stole blankets and portable audio players in the rooms but no one appears to have been hurt, the foreign ministry said.
Cars and other valuables including laptop computers and cameras were safe as the workers had moved them to a secure location, it added.
The foreign ministry said that it will deal with the intrusion based on a similar incident at the same work site last month, which resulted in millions of dollars of property damage.
"There has been no official announcement on the latest issue from the Libyan government," said an official from the ministry.
"The Libyan government has said it will make compensation for the last month's incident. We will start assessing the damage and ask the government to compensate in the same way."