PhotoGunmen stormed Libya’s electoral commission in the capital, Tripoli, on Wednesday, spraying bullets and then detonating explosives in a suicide attack that claimed several lives. “They shot with their machine guns, set the building on fire, before blowing themselves up,” said Khalid Omar, a spokesman for the electoral commission, who witnessed part of the attack. Mr. Omar said he knew of six co-workers who had been killed, but he added that the head of the commission had told him that there were 10 dead. There were reports that some members of Libya’s security forces, who exchanged gunfire with the attackers, had also been killed. Mr. Omar said that heavily armed men — he said that he did not know the precise number, but had seen two — took over the commission’s administration building, one of several structures in the complex.

Source: Libya Today May 02, 2018 16:05 UTC