Blast at Police Station in Libya's Benghazi Wounds Five
An explosive device detonated outside a police station in Libya's Benghazi on Friday, wounding five people, a security official told Agence France Presse, in the latest attack to hit the eastern city.
In recent months, Benghazi has been hit by a wave of bombings and assassinations targeting judges, the military and police officers.
"An explosive device placed behind the Ras Ubeid police station in the Sidi Hassan neighborhood in Benghazi went off, wounding five people lightly, one policeman and four people living nearby," Colonel Mohamed al-Hijazi, spokesman for the security forces in Benghazi, told AFP.
He added that the blast had caused "material damage to the building and neighboring houses."
Benghazi in eastern Libya was the cradle of the 2011 uprising that ousted long-standing strongman Moammar Gadhafi, but in recent months deadly attacks on judges and police and army officers, some with links to Gadhafi's regime, have swept the city.
Attacks generally blamed on radical Islamists have also been carried out against Western interests, including a June 5 attempt to kill Jean Dufriche, France's honorary consul in Benghazi.
Source: Agence France Presse
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