TRIPOLI
Unknown assailants have launched two rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) at the Moroccan embassy headquarters in Libyan capital Tripoli, but no injuries were reported, eyewitnesses said.
Two consecutive booms were heard late Sunday near the site of the Moroccan embassy in downtown Tripoli, which were later found out to have come from RPGs that targeted the embassy headquarters in Tripoli's Ben Ashour district, eyewitnesses told The Anadolu Agency.
The frontal parts of the embassy's building went ablaze and the façade was completely destroyed, the witnesses added.
The embassy had been evacuated since last August, when the security situation in Libya began to nosedive, witnesses said.
The assault on the Moroccan embassy has yet to be claimed by any group.
Morocco is currently hosting political dialogue between Libya's warring factions in the hopes of resolving the political gridlock and restoring security in the country.
Libya has remained in a state of turmoil since a bloody uprising ended the decades-long rule of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011.
Since then, the country's stark political divisions have yielded two rival seats of government, each with its own institutions and military capacities.
For almost one year, Libya's Tobruk-based House of Representatives has vied with the Islamist-led, Tripoli-based General National Congress for legislative authority.
The two assemblies support two rival governments respectively headquartered in the two cities.
