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| Double bomb attacks in Tobruk and Beida |
| 2014-11-13 |
| [Libya Herald] At least five soldiers have been killed with the number of casualties expected to rise in the coming hours following two deadly kabooms in the government held strongholds of Tobruk and Beida. Mohammed Al-Hejazi, a front man for the Libyan National Army (LNA), told the Libya Herald that two boom-mobiles had went kaboom!in Tobruk on a busy road near the town's petroleum institute. He said at least two soldiers had been killed in the blast. Hejazi could not give information on the number of civilian casualties which are expected to be much higher. The kabooms seem to have been caused in Tobruk by two remotely detonated boom-mobiles and were not carried out by a jacket wallah, although the specific details remain unclear as new information continues to emerge, Hejazi said. In Beida at least three soldiers were killed and 12 injured, some critically, after another boom-mobile went kaboom!at the south gate of the town's Labraq airbase, 30 kilometres from Beida. Hejazi said in this case a suicide bomber had caused the blast. Telecommunications to Tobruk seem to have been disrupted in the aftermath of the attack. Attempts by the Libya Herald to reach residents in the town were unsuccessful. |
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