Benghazi, Libya -
The police chief in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday survived an assassination attempt, security sources said.
The car of Colonel Mohammed bin Haleem exploded when he remotely switched it on. The blast caused no injuries, the state-run news agency reported.
"The bomb was carefully placed inside the car," it quoted an unnamed source as saying.
It was not clear who was behind the attack, which comes a month after the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi in an assault by suspected Islamist militiamen.
Attempts by Libya's new rulers to establish security have proven difficult. The country is awash with weapons from the armed revolt that ended the rule of Muammar Gaddafi last year.
Libyan authorities last month ordered illegal militias to disband and launched a disarmament drive. - Sapa-dpa
IOLSA
Quiet a fortunate man. I knew Libya will face the aftermath of the civil war. The weapons are now used for vile reasons.