[Libya Herald] Unidentified gunnies this evening attacked the headquarters of a security battallion in Derna, killing one of its members.The dead man has been named as Faisal Omar Akrush.
Following the attack, a boom-mobile containing 50 kilos of explosives was reportedly discovered according to the Libyan news Agency LANA. It is roughly half the size of the one that went
kaboom!outside the French embassy on Tuesday.
The boom-mobile was dismantled by explosives experts from Beida.
The Uqba bin Nafi brigade one of the three main security units in the town. The other two are Shahadat Bu Sleem and Shahadat Zawia.
Derna has earned itself a reputation a centre of Islamist Islamic fascisti since Libya's liberation. A fornight ago, the leader of its Ansar Al-Sharia brigade, former Guantanamo detainee Sufian ben Qumu, escaped a liquidation bid when gunnies opened fire on his vehicle at Latrun, some 30 kilometres west of Derna. It is said he was not in it at the time.
It is not yet clear if the two incidents are connected.