Car bombing kills 2 in Libya’s Benghazi

By Jihad Nasr

BENGHAZI, Libya

Two soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, according to a military spokesman.

The explosion targeted the convoy of Mahmoud Al-Warfalli, the special forces commander, in western Benghazi, Army Colonel Melowd al-Zewi said.

Al-Warfalli was injured in the attack, he said.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Last week, Benghazi police chief Salah Howeidi survived a car-bomb explosion in the troubled city.

Benghazi was the birthplace of a 2011 uprising that ended with the ouster and death of strongman Muammar Gaddafi after 42 years in power.

In the wake of the uprising, the country’s stark political divisions yielded two rival seats of government, one in Tobruk and the other in Tripoli.