Libya’s new defence minister survives assassination attempt
BENGHAZI, Libya – An official statement by the office of Libya’s new defence minister says that the minister has survived an assassination attempt by a car bomb while one of his guards was injured with shrapnel.
The media office of Mahdi al-Barghathi says on Thursday that the minister came under attack while leaving an army barrack in the eastern city of Benghazi, when a car bomb was detonated on Wednesday.
Al-Barghathi is part of the UN-brokered unity government seated in the capital Tripoli, which has so far failed to win the parliament’s vote of confidence. A key point of contention is over the army leadership and the future of Gen. Khalifa Hifter, the head of armed forces based in the east, unpopular in western Libya but a hero for some in eastern Libya.
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