Bomber Kills Policeman in Libya's Benghazi

A police officer was killed in Libya's second city Benghazi on Tuesday by a bomb placed on his car, in the latest attack targeting security personnel, a medical source said.

Mrajaa al-Aribi died in the city's al-Jala hospital from injuries sustained in the explosion, the source said.

The bombing came a day after a spate of attacks in the eastern city killed one security service member and wounded another, security service spokesman Colonel Abdullah al-Zayedi said.

The two men were ambushed by gunmen. Bombers also hit an air force vehicle and the car of lawyer Jibril al-Maksabi on Monday, without causing any casualties, Zayedi said.

Medics at Benghazi's al-Hawari hospital said it too had been hit by a bomb but nobody was hurt.

Benghazi was the cradle of the 2011 revolt that toppled and killed strongman Moammar Gadhafi, but it has been hit by a wave of deadly attacks against security force personnel and Western targets.

Libya's new rulers have struggled to re-establish order and form a professional police force and army since Gadhafi's overthrow and face former rebel fighters, some of them jihadist, who reject their authority.