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A suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives on Tuesday in front of a hotel where Libya’s Parliament was in session in the eastern city of Tobruk, wounding three deputies and eight hotel staff members, the assembly’s spokesman said. The assembly, which was elected in June, shifted its seat to Tobruk, near Egypt’s border, after violence worsened in its planned location, the eastern city of Benghazi. The car exploded in a parking lot near the hotel’s entrance gate as lawmakers sat in a nearby hall, a parliamentary spokesman, Farraj Hashem, said. Until now, Tobruk had been secure compared with the rest of Libya, which has been in turmoil since Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was toppled nearly four years ago. A car bomb last month targeted the city, but not Parliament itself. A suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives on Tuesday in front of a hotel where Libya’s Parliament was in session in the eastern city of Tobruk, wounding three deputies and eight hotel staff members, the assembly’s spokesman said. The assembly, which was elected in June, shifted its seat to Tobruk, near Egypt’s border, after violence worsened in its planned location, the eastern city of Benghazi. The car exploded in a parking lot near the hotel’s entrance gate as lawmakers sat in a nearby hall, a parliamentary spokesman, Farraj Hashem, said. Until now, Tobruk had been secure compared with the rest of Libya, which has been in turmoil since Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was toppled nearly four years ago.