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No injuries as bomb goes off in Benghazi
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A POWERFUL car bomb exploded yesterday near Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, exactly one year after the September 11 attack there that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans.
The early morning blast, also on the 12th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US, caused no serious casualties, though several passers-by were slightly wounded, authorities said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the assault. However, the bombing targeted a building that once housed the US Consulate during the rule of King Idris, who was overthrown in a bloodless coup by former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 1969.
The bomb blew out a side wall of the building, leaving desks, filing cabinets and computers strewn among the concrete rubble.
It also damaged the Benghazi branch of the Libyan Central Bank along a major thoroughfare in the city.
The Foreign Ministry used the building to provide government services to Libyans and foreigners in the eastern region, which is hundreds of kilometers away from the capital Tripoli.
The explosion came a day after authorities found and defused another bomb next to the Foreign Ministry building in Tripoli, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan said.
Speaking to journalists hours after the explosion, Zidan pledged the government would track down those responsible and “cut off their hands.”
“There is a force that wants no state and to turn Libya to a battlefield of terrorism and explosions,” he said.
Deputy Interior Minister Sadik Abdel-Karim said the country’s security situation was “deteriorating.”
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