admin“The department of military intelligence was bombed,” a senior security officer said, adding that the level of damage to the two-storey building suggested it was hit by an improvised explosive device.
Adjacent buildings were also touched by the dawn blast, he added.
“The incident did not result in injury to any of the guards of the residents of neighbouring buildings,” said the official who did not wish to be named.
The identity of the attackers, he said, remains unknown.
Khaled Haidar, spokesman for the director of national security in Benghazi, said that the eastern city has witnessed a series of security breaches over the past week.
These included the discovery and neutralisation of a bomb outside the iconic Tibesti hotel on Sunday.
Friday saw a hand grenade hit the appeals court and a rocket punch the outside wall of the main prison. Both incidents caused only minor material damage to the buildings targeted, he said.
Also on Friday, Haidar added, security forces diffused two time-bombs planted by the office of national security in Benghazi.
These recent attacks coincide with a break-in at Benghazi’s Kowaifiyah prison that freed the suspected killer of former rebel chief Abdel-Fattah Younis, a security official says.
The Interior Ministry official said Muslim militant Salem al-Obeidi was freed when gunmen stormed the prison on Tuesday night.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, had no further details. — Al Jazeera.
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