Car Bomb Kills 4, Wounds at Least Dozen in Libya’s Benghazi
Local Editor
A car bomb killed four civilians and wounded around 14 others in the war-torn Libyan city of Benghazi Friday night, a hospital official said.
The car was parked in front of the entrance of the al-Jalaa hospital, one of the two biggest in the city and where troops get treatment for injuries battling armed groups, including Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] extremists.
In this regard, Fadia Berghathi, head of the hospital's media department, stated that "a car bomb exploded in front of the entrance of the hospital, killing four civilians and wounding 14 others."
Relatively, a military source in Benghazi reported that the explosion "was caused by a sticky bomb planted under a car parked in front of the hospital."
So far, there were no immediate claim of responsibility.
For the last two years, the eastern city has seen bloody battles between loyalist forces led by General Khalifa Haftar and armed groups including extremists from Daesh and Ansar al-Sharia, which is close to al-Qaeda.
In a similar context, pro-government forces Friday repelled a counterattack by Daesh as they pressed their offensive to retake the extremist coastal bastion of Sirte, 450 kilometers east of the capital Tripoli.
The Western-backed overthrow of Dictator Muammar Gadhafi in 2011 plunged Libya into chaos, with rival rebel forces seizing as much territory as they could.
Daesh extremists have taken advantage of the upheaval to establish a presence.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
