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Two police stations targeted in Libya's Benghazi: source

Dec 16th 2012, 7:28 pm
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Two police stations were targeted in what appeared to be simultaneous attacks in the eastern Libyan city o canada goose women outlet   f Benghazi on Monday, a police source said, a day after four policemen were killed when a compound was attacked.

An explosive device was thrown at an empty car parked in front of Gharyounes police station in western Benghazi early on Monday, the source said. A loud explosion was heard in the area, according to a Reuters reporter nearby.

An explosive device was also  canada goose outlet online  thrown in front of another police station in the east of the city, damaging a front wall.

"The attacks appear to be simultaneous. There are no injuries," the source said.

The anti-Gaddafi uprising started last year in Benghazi but Libya's second city is now a hot spot for violence, with arms readily available canada goose cheap  and state security forces struggling to **ert their authority.

On Sunday, unknown **ailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a Benghazi police compound, which houses patrol cars, damaging an office and killing one policeman. A gun battle followed and three of the police reinfcanada goose sale orcements who arrived at the scene were killed, a police spokesman said.

That attack is believed to be linked to the recent detention of two men in connection with several ****inations of security officials in the city, as the **ault happened next door to a police station where they were being h canada goose women jacket eld.

In September, the U.S. amb**ador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the worst of a string of attacks on international convoys and offic canada goose parkaial buildings in the city.

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