Libya Police Colonel Targeted in Assassination Attempt
Libya Police Colonel Targeted in Assassination Attempt
A police car exploded on Saturday during a failed assassination attempt on a police colonel in the eastern city of Benghazi, a Libyan police official said.
The attack was the latest in a series of assassination attempts in Benghazi, the cradle of last year’s uprising which ousted Muammar Gaddafi, and where U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed in a September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate.
Unknown suspects placed a home-made bomb under Colonel Mohammed Ben Haleem’s car which was parked outside his house, police spokesman Majed al-Obeidi said.
“The colonel turned his engine on to warm up the car, then stepped back into the house to retrieve something. That’s when the car exploded,” he told Reuters.