At least 2 dead, 7 wounded in car bombing in Libya’s Benghazi

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BENGHAZI, Libya: At least two people were killed and seven wounded in a nighttime car bomb attack targeting a security chief in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a news agency and medical sources said Sunday.

LANA news agency, based in the country’s east, said a vehicle exploded at around 2:00 am (0000 GMT) in a western suburb of Benghazi as a convoy of cars drove up carrying the chief of a forensic police unit.

The two dead were in the convoy, it said, while civilians were among the wounded.

A military source said the official, Hamada al-Ramli, escaped unhurt.

“We have received seven wounded in the explosion, some in serious condition,” Khalil Goueder, a spokesman for the Benghazi Medical Centre, told AFP.