(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) A bobby-trapped car went off in front of Libya's General Directorate of Diplomatic Security Headquarters here on Saturday.
"Unknown assailants parked an explosives-laden BMW in front of the building and remotely exploded it later," Diplomatic Security Chief Mubarak Abu Dhaheer told KUNA. He added that the powerful explosion left no human casualties, but caused huge material damage.
"In an investigation was launched to bring perpetrators to justice," he said.
The US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence said that the Libyan branch of the so-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack on the diplomatic security building and posted a number of the photos of the explosion at the jihadist websites. Separately, Abu Dhaheer announced that a fire broke out at the yard of the Saudi embassy in Tripoli last night and the fire fighters managed to extinguish it.
He noted that the fire burnt three cars that were parking inside the embassy.
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