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| General Khalifa Haftar: Libya bomb targets Benghazi home | General Khalifa Haftar: Libya bomb targets Benghazi home |
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| A suicide bomb attack at the home of a rogue Libyan general - who has been leading an offensive against government-funded Islamist militia - has killed three people. | A suicide bomb attack at the home of a rogue Libyan general - who has been leading an offensive against government-funded Islamist militia - has killed three people. |
| General Khalifa Haftar, a former army chief of staff under Col Muammar Gaddafi, survived the blast in the city of Benghazi, officials say. | |
| Several people were wounded. | Several people were wounded. |
| Benghazi is at the centre of a two-week long campaign by Gen Haftar's forces against Islamist armed groups. | |
| He accuses the government of supporting terrorism, which the authorities deny. | |
| Gen Haftar's actions have been backed by an array of groups, including military forces in the east as well as some members of the air force. | |
| Libya is still in turmoil three years after the fall of Gaddafi - with political, religious and political factions locked in disagreement about the country's future. |