BENGHAZI: One person was killed and five wounded in Libya’s eastern city Benghazi yesterday when a car bomb exploded at a funeral for an assassinated army officer, security and medical sources said.
The army colonel had been killed by a device planted under his car which exploded while he was driving through the city centre on Saturday, a security source said.
He died in hospital last morning. When relatives and friends gathered for his funeral at noon a car bomb exploded in the crowd.
The security situation has sharply deteriorated in Libya’s second-largest city in the past few months. Most countries closed their consulates in Benghazi after a series of attacks and some foreign airlines have stopped flying there.
reuters
