Residents said the car bombs targeted a military unit called Bulahati belonging to the eastern forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) in the city centre. "We heard the first explosion, but we thought it was fireworks, then we heard the second," one resident told Reuters by telephone. "We found people around the Bulahati military unit and there was huge black smoke in the sky," another added. "We then discovered it was car bombs." Derna, once a jihadist bastion, is about 292 km distant from Libya's second city, Benghazi, and was declared to be under the complete control of Khalifa Haftar's LNA in June 2018.

Source: bd News24 June 02, 2019 02:37 UTC