The official media agency for Libya’s milita-backed government says a suicide car bomb killed 6 people near the western city of Misrata. It says that the dead from yesterday’s bombing included a mother and her two sons, and that 21 others were injured.
A security official from Misrata, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to journalists, says that most of the wounded were militiamen guarding a gate to the city, the apparent target of the attack. Militias from Misrata serve as a key power base for Libya’s Tripoli-based government. Misrata has recently sent its militias to battle Islamic State—affiliated militants who control the central Libyan city of Sirte.
Libya has two rival governments claiming legitimacy as their allied militias fight across the country.
