Two police officers were killed and five others were injured Sunday night when a car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, south of Damascus, a police source said.
“A trapped car exploded as it reached a checkpoint set up by law enforcement,” said the source, a police officer in Sabha, a desert town 750km south of Tripoli.
“Two officers (s.s. had a rank equivalent to police officer BD) were killed, five other police officers were injured and extensive property damage was caused,” the source added.
No action has been taken on the action so far.
Images broadcast by Libyan media show police cars severely damaged and wrecked by the blast.
The capital of Fezan, a southern Libyan province, Sabha is controlled by the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LES) of Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya. It has been repeatedly turned into a theater of jihadist attacks in recent years.
Libya plunged into chaos following insurgency that toppled Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011 in the North African country of jihadist organizations such as the Islamic State (IS).
After losing its strongholds around the cities of Sirte (north and center) and Derna (east) in 2018, the IK weakened and its members withdrew to the desert, or mingled with the population on the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean.
The blast came as a UN-backed political process led to the formation in March of a transitional government tasked with reunifying the country and preparing for double, parliamentary and presidential elections in December, a crucial process.
