(CNN) — Amid burials and prayers, tens of thousands of Libyans took to the streets today to air their discontent with four decades of Moammar Gadhafi, the longest-ruling president in the world, witnesses said.
At least 20 people were killed and 200 were injured in the northern Mediterranean city of Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest, said a medical source in Benghazi who was not identified for security reasons.
CNN was unable to independently verify the information.
The bodies of those killed in clashes with security forces earlier this week were carried to a cemetery by a crowd of protesters, said a protester whose name has also been withheld for his safety.
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Another large crowd converged in front of the main courthouse, in an area that has been transformed into Benghazi’s Tahrir Square, the Cairo plaza at the center of Egypt’s revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak a week ago.