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Suicide attacker targets checkpoint at Libyan desert town
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TRIPOLI, 23 August 2021, (TON): A spokesman for the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls that area, said that a suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint into the Libyan town of Zella, killing himself but causing no other casualties.
Libya has endured a decade of violence and chaos since the 2011 uprising against Muammar Qaddafi, but there have been only sporadic attacks by militant groups in recent years, mostly in remote desert areas.
Zella is a small oasis town in the desert south of Sirte located near an oilfield of the same name.
LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari said ‘the attacks bore the hallmark of Daesh.”
In a separate development, authorities said “mains water was being restored to western Libya after a week-long cut prompted by sabotage threats from loyalists of a jailed Qaddafi-era official.”
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