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2 Libyan soldiers killed in suicide attack on checkpoint east of Sirte

Xinhua,May 08, 2018 Adjust font size:

TRIPOLI, May 8 (Xinhua) -- A suicide bomber attacked a military checkpoint east of Libya's northern city of Sirte on Tuesday, killing two soldiers of Libya's eastern-based army.

"A car bomb exploded when it passed through the military checkpoint known as the 90-km gate east of Sirte," the army's Sirte operations chamber said in a statement.

The explosion near Sirte, some 450 km east of the capital Tripoli, also injured three others, the statement added.

In February, a similar suicide attack targeted the same checkpoint, wounding three soldiers and destroying several military vehicles.

The Sirte operations chamber was formed in early 2016 to fight against the Islamic State (IS) militants who were then controlling the city.

The chamber entered the city in December 2016, after an eight-month military campaign launched by the Tripoli-based UN-backed government succeeded in expelling the IS.

Since then, the IS remnants have fled to the desert and valley areas near Sirte and carried out sporadic attacks on army sites. Enditem

 

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