LIBYA-SECURITY/MISRATA BOMB One killed in car bomb in Libya's Misrata city

Record ID: 358316

  • Title: LIBYA-SECURITY/MISRATA BOMB One killed in car bomb in Libya's Misrata city
  • Date: 16th March 2015
  • Summary: MISRATA, LIBYA (MARCH 15, 2015) (REUTERS) MILITARY VEHICLE STANDING NEXT TO EXPLODED CAR / POLICEMEN EXAMINING THE CAR VARIOUS OF REMAINS OF EXPLODED CAR (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MEMBER OF BATTALION 166, MAHMOUD AL-SHAOUSH, SAYING: "One of the camps for the 166 battalion was targeted today by terror attack in which one of our hero fighters was killed." VARIOUS OF CAR VARIOUS O
  • Embargoed: 31st March 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Libya
  • Country: Libya
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA3SUVGPZX1O90UOUR88CX977IY
  • Story Text: One person was killed when a car bomb exploded in a suburb of Libya's Misrata city late on Sunday (March 15).
    The device blew up in front of a camp of a faction called 166 battalion, which has been tasked with fighting Islamic State militants in Sirte, a central city.
    "One of the camps for the 166 battalion was targeted today by terror attack in which one of our hero fighters was killed", said Mahmoud al-Shaoush, one of its members.
    Militants loyal to Islamic State, the group that controls much of Syria and Iraq, have been exploiting chaos in Libya where two governments allied to armed factions are vying for power four years after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
    Earlier in the day, a bag of explosives went off at a checkpoint next to a Janzour security building, a Tripoli suburb, wounding five policemen.
    Islamic State militants published on social media a picture of what they said was the site of the explosion.
    Misrata, Libya's third-largest city located to the east of Tripoli, is the power base of a faction called Libya Dawn which seized Tripoli in August, forcing the internationally recognised government to the east.
    Misrata had been so far spared the violence gripping much of the country.
    Groups of Islamist militants, who have declared loyalty to Islamic State over the past six months, have claimed responsibility for several high-profile attacks in what appears to be an intensifying campaign.
    They claimed responsibility for an attack on the Corinthia luxury hotel in Tripoli in January, which killed five foreigners, as well as a group of Egyptian Copts in Sirte, triggering air strikes by Egypt.
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