At least 7 killed in Libya bombing

Bombs hit shelter for displaced people, wounding at least 17 in latest attack on citizens.

CAIRO — Bombs hit a shelter for displaced people in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, killing at least seven people including a 5year-old child from Bangladesh, health authorities said Sunday.

The shelling in the city’s Furnaj district late Saturday also wounded at least 17 people, including a 52year-old Bengali migrant and his 5-year-old child, Malek Merset, said a spokesman for the capital’s Field Medicine and Support Center.

It was the latest attack on civilians in the fighting between eastern-based forces under military commander Khalifa Hifter and militias loosely allied with the U.N.-supported but weak government in the capital. The center is part of the Tripoli-based government’s Health Ministry.

A fire broke out in parts of the shelter housing people displaced by previous clashes, Merset said.