‘Assassination attempt’ on Libyan army chief

The chief of staff for Khalifa Haftar, the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA), survived a car bombing in the city of Benghazi yesterday.

General Abdelrazak al-nadhuri “escaped unharmed from a terrorist assassination attempt after a car bomb exploded … as his convoy passed,” the LNA said in a brief statement.

The attack comes after Haftar, who supports a parliament based in the far east of Libya, was admitted to hospital in Paris last week after falling ill.