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Libyan blast injures 12 children at Benghazi school | |
(about 5 hours later) | |
Twelve children have been injured, two of them seriously, in a grenade attack on a school in Benghazi, officials say. | |
Witnesses say the grenade was thrown over a wall into a private school in the Tabilinu area during a break from lessons. | Witnesses say the grenade was thrown over a wall into a private school in the Tabilinu area during a break from lessons. |
Benghazi has witnessed a series of bomb attacks and assassinations within the past year, but attacks on schools are rare. | Benghazi has witnessed a series of bomb attacks and assassinations within the past year, but attacks on schools are rare. |
It is not yet known who is responsible for the attack. | It is not yet known who is responsible for the attack. |
A Benghazi resident told the BBC that a family member had seen a man rip out the grenade pin with his mouth. | |
He then threw it into the school before escaping in a low black car with tinted windows, the eyewitness said. | |
People were running and screaming after the blast, the resident said. | People were running and screaming after the blast, the resident said. |
The attack was carried out just before 11:00 local time (09:00 GMT), while the children were outside playing. | |
A Benghazi security official said the explosion was "weak" and that police were currently looking for the perpetrators. | |
Benghazi was the cradle of the 2011 uprising that toppled the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi. | |
But since then it has been a focal point for attacks on public institutions and officials. |