Car bomb explodes outside French embassy in Libya leaving two guards seriously injured
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 23, 2013 15:25
France’s embassy in Tripoli has been hit by what appeared to be a car bomb this morning, injuring two guards.
It is the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the 2011 war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
‘There was an attack on the embassy. We think it was a booby-trapped car,’ said an embassy official.
‘There was a lot of damage and there are two guards wounded.’
The attack on the fortified complex in Tripoli comes just over two years to the day since former president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered his airforce to start attacking Gaddafi’s forces as part of the liberation of the North African country.
The guards, both of whom were French nationals, were badly hurt, with one said to be in a life-threatening condition, said the source
Diplomatic missions have been targeted in Libya, most notably an attack on the US mission in the eastern city of Benghazi last September that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.
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