Truck bomb kills 47 in Libya

The Islamic State (IS) group is unleashing more terror on Libya following a truck bomb attack on a police training centre in the western Libyan city of Zliten, killing at least 47 people, reports say.

According to reports, the bomb attack struck the al-Jahfal training camp which was used as a military base during the rule of the late ousted Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

In a separate attack, a suicide bomber killed six people at the entrance to Ras Lanuf, a major oil port in northern Libya.

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According to Osama al-Hodeiri, a spokesman for the security forces that guard the oil facilities, “one of those killed was a 16-month-old child”.

“A driver in a Toyota Land Cruiser blew himself up at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Ras Lanuf,” he said, adding that three guards had also been killed.

Libya has been hit by instability since Gaddafi’s overthrow and killing in 2011, and there is also concern that IS group is gaining a foothold there.

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