Terrorist attack
Open on the mapattentat de Zliten lors de la deuxième guerre civile libyenne
7 Jan 2016 · 32.47° N, 14.57° E
What the records say
- When
- 7 Jan 2016
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 32.47° N, 14.57° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Attentat de Zliten.
Zliten truck bombing
2016 Libyan militant attack
The Zliten truck bombing occurred on 7 January 2016, when Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb at the police training camp al-Jahfal in the coastal town of Zliten, Libya. Libyan authorities said at least 60 policemen were killed and over 200 wounded. Concrete buildings inside the compound were charred from the blast and their windows blown out; nearby cars were turned into twisted metal wrecks.
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