Benghazi: Six people were killed and nearly 15 people were wounded in a suicide bomb blast at an army base outside Benghazi, situated in eatern Libya. Medical sources said that many soldiers were also killed in the attack. Sources said that the attacker blew himself up in a car in front of the base in Barsis, about 50 km outside Benghazi. The security situation has sharply deteriorated in Libya's second-largest city in the past few months where car bombs and assassinations of army and police officers happen regularly.
Most countries closed their consulates in Benghazi after a series of attacks and some foreign airlines have stopped flying there. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed in September 2012 during an Islamist assault on the consulate. Western diplomats worry the violence in Benghazi will spill over to the capital Tripoli which saw the worst fighting in months between militias in November 2013. Much of Libya's oil wealth is located in the east where many demand autonomy from the Tripoli government, adding to turmoil in the North African country.
(Reuters)
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