TRIPOLI, Oct 25, 2006 (AFP) - One of more than 400 Libyan children allegedly injected with the HIV virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor has died, the association of victims' families has announced.
Marwa Annouiji, nine, died Tuesday at the children's hospital in the city of Benghazi, the association said late Wednesday.
Her death brings to 52 the number of children who have died in connection with the case.
It comes just days ahead of the resumption of the retrial of the six, accused of infecting 436 children in Benghazi with the HIV virus.
The health workers maintain their innocence.
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