Benghazi, 4 November:
A car bomb was detonated in the early hours of Sunday morning in front of a police station in Benghazi, lightly injuring three police officers.
The explosion took place in front of the Hadaqeq police station, causing significant damage to the building’s entrance.
According to the Reuters news agency, an unnamed policeman said that the explosion was caused by a homemade bomb attached to the bottom of a police car parked in front of the station.
The attack is the latest in a string of assaults on security forces in Benghazi to have taken place in recent months. On 13 October, a car bomb was detonated under the vehicle of Benghazi’s police chief, Colonel Mohamed Ben Haleem, in a failed assassination attempt.
Three days later, Colonel Adel Baqramawi, allegedly a former officer in the “Liquidation Unit” of Qaddafi’s External Security Agency, was assassinated when a bomb was thrown at his vehicle from a passing car in the early hours of the morning.
He was the fifteenth Qaddafi-era officer to have been murdered in Benghazi this year, in what appears to be a systematic campaign of assassinations. [/restrict]
