{"id":5927,"date":"2020-07-30T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5927"},"modified":"2020-07-30T12:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T12:54:11","slug":"twin-car-bombs-kill-at-least-27-in-libyas-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5927","title":{"rendered":"Twin car bombs kill at least 27 in Libya&#8217;s Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll following a double car bomb attack in the\u00a0Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night has risen to at least 27. A further 20 people were injured and the number of fatalities could rise, Fadia al-Barghathi, spokeswoman for the city&#8217;s al-Jala hospital, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>An explosives-rigged vehicle blew up in front of a mosque in the central neighbourhood of Al-Sleimani, a security source said.<\/p>\n<p>A second car exploded 30 minutes later in the same area, causing more casualties among security services and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The mosque is known to be a base for Salafist groups which fought jihadists in the eastern port city alongside forces loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad al-Fitouri, a security services official for Haftar&#8217;s forces, was among those killed in the bombing, military spokesman Miloud al-Zwei said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<noscript><\/noscript><figcaption>\nPeople inspect the site of twin car bombs in Benghazi, LibyaCredit:<br \/>\n\u00a0REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Libya\u00a0has been rocked by chaos since a 2011 uprising that toppled and killed dictator Moamer Kadhafi, with two rival authorities and multiple militias vying for control of the oil-rich country.<\/p>\n<p>Haftar in July announced the &quot;total liberation&quot; of Benghazi, three years after his forces launched a military operation to seize the city from jihadists who had made it a stronghold following the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>But clashes and attacks in the city have continued, including against diplomatic facilities and security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Haftar supports a parliament based in the far east of\u00a0Libya, while a rival United Nations-backed unity government in the western capital Tripoli has struggled to assert its authority nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.miugolf.com\/index.php?route=product\/special' title='Golf special'>Golf special<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll following a double car bomb attack in the\u00a0Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night has risen to at least 27. A further 20 people were injured and the number of fatalities could rise, Fadia al-Barghathi, spokeswoman for the city&#8217;s al-Jala hospital, told AFP. An explosives-rigged vehicle blew up in front of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}