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Army personnel look at the site of an explosion at an army checkpoint in Barsis, east of Benghazi | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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Army personnel look at the site of an explosion at an army checkpoint in Barsis, east of Benghazi June 12, 2014. A huge explosion likely caused by a suicide bomber at an army checkpoint outside the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed the attacker and wounded six others late on Wednesday, army officials said. A car exploded in Barsis, 50 km (30 miles) east of the port city, an army official told Reuters. Three soldiers and three civilians were wounded and the alleged attacker was killed, army officials said, after first putting the death toll at two. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori (LIBYA – Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY CONFLICT)