Tripoli,<\/p>\n
The death toll of the double car bomb attacks that hit the Libyan city of Benghazi has risen above 20, a hospital official said. An army officer has been killed while his senior was injured.<\/p>\n
“The reported death toll is from Al-Jalaa hospital alone. There are other cases that have been transferred to other hospitals and clinics in the city,” Fadia Al-Barghathi, a hospital official told Xinhua.<\/p>\n
Al-Barghathi confirmed that the hospital has so far received 22 bodies and 21 injured persons.<\/p>\n
Two car bomb explosions hit Benghazi on Tuesday night. The first one was in front of a mosque as worshipers were leaving after the night prayers. The second one exploded at the same spot as the ambulances arrived.<\/p>\n
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks yet.<\/p>\n
Milud Al-Zwai, a spokesman for the army’s special forces, told the media that the commander of the Special Investigation Unit, Ahmed Ali Al-Fitouri, was also killed in one of the attacks.<\/p>\n
Brigadier General Mahdi Al-Falah, a senior Libyan intelligence official, was injured in the first explosion.<\/p>\n
These were the most violent bombings in Benghazi in months, after the army took control of the entire city and the completion of operations against terrorist groups there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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