Libyan witness: Stevens was breathing when found

Cairo: A witness says US ambassador Chris Stevens was still breathing as people pulled him from a room where he was found after last week’s attack on the American Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi. [caption id=“attachment_459125” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Libyan guards block the gate of the U.S Consulate, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, while Libyan investigators work inside on their investigation regarding the attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday. AP[/caption] Fahd al-Bakoush says he was present when a crowd pulled Stevens out of the room inside the consulate where someone stumbled across him, thinking he was dead. No one knew who he was. Al-Bakoush said on Monday that Stevens was breathing, though his face was blackened and he seemed paralyzed. Al-Bakoush says the crowd carried Stevens to a private car to drive him to a hospital, since there was no ambulance. Three other Americans died in the Tuesday attack, part of a wave of unrest over an anti-Islam film. AP