Libya's Peace Efforts in Tatters After Deadliest Bomb Kills 50
- Attack follows Islamic State assault on key oil center
- UN attempting to win support for unity government plan
Libyans gather at the site of a suicide truck bombing on a police school in Libya's coastal city of Zliten on Jan 7, 2016.
Photographer: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty ImagesViolence in Libya deepened as a bombing at a police training center in a coastal city left at least 50 recruits dead days after Islamic State launched an assault on the nation’s biggest oil port.
The attack in Zliten was “massive,” according to Said Muftah al-Himady, head of the local council, adding that given the enormity of the explosion a van or truck was probably used to carry the explosives. While there has been no claim of responsibility, Al-Jazeera said it was likely carried out by Islamic State, whose presence in Libya has steadily grown since the country fractured between two rival administrations in the summer of 2014.