by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2016
A car bomb killed 11 troops of Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s force in Benghazi on July 6, the third attack in the Libyan city in recent weeks.
![At least two people were killed and seven wounded in a nighttime car bomb attack targeting a security chief in Benghazi on July 3.](https://www.worldtribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Baghdad-car-bombs-300x169.jpg)
The bomb was set off as the soldiers held evening prayers on the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, a military source said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
The blast follows a car bomb targeting a security chief that killed two people on July 3 and a June 24 bombing that killed four civilians.
Haftar’s army drove Islamist fighters out of most of the city earlier this year. The general refuses to recognize a joint military command set by the U.N.-backed unity government in Tripoli, saying he still takes orders from a rival administration based in the eastern city of Tobruk.
Meanwhile, a MiG-23 fighter jet of Haftar’s air force crashed in the west of Benghazi on July 6, killing its pilot, a spokesman said.
“The crash was due to a technical fault,” Ahmad al-Mismari, spokesman of the Haftar-led army command, told AFP.