AFP- A car bomb targeting a Libyan special forces barracks in the restive eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday killed two soldiers and wounded another two, medical and military officials said.
The attack, which took place at the entrance to the barracks on road to the airport, appeared to have been carried out by a suicide car bomber, an army officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Benghazi was the cradle of the 2011 uprising that ended Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade rule and has since been plagued by violence that has killed dozens of members of the security forces, judges and foreigners.
According to the army officer, the blast killed two soldiers and wounded two more. An official at Benghazi’s Al-Jala hospital confirmed a death toll of two.
The government has struggled to consolidate control in the vast and mostly desert country, which is effectively ruled by a patchwork of local militias and awash in heavy weapons looted from Gaddafi’s arsenals.
On 22 December, a suicide car bomb targeting a security post 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Benghazi left 13 people dead.
Militants have also attacked foreign missions in Benghazi, including a September 2012 assault on the US consulate in the Mediterranean city that killed the ambassador and three other Americans.
