Bomb blasts destroy Benghazi police station
[MAGHAREBIA] A bomb went kaboom! Tuesday (July 8th) at the Sabri cop shoppe in Benghazi, Libya Herald reported. The station was ravaged by a fire after a powerful blast on Monday. Several citizens were treated for injuries.
In other security news, six people were killed in Benghazi on Monday night. According to a Saiqa Special Forces
...Libya's elite army unit, insofar as they have one, formed from a mixture of paratroopers and commandos. The group emerged from a militia with the same name in 2010. It now numbers a few thousand and reports to the Ministry of Defence. It deployed in Benghazi in an attempt to control the carnage. As a result, it has been attacked and several of its officers murdered. The force is popular in Benghazi for its stance against Ansar al-Sharia group...
source, the victims included two young men who died in separate drive-by shootings.
Posted by: Fred 2014-07-10 |