At least two people were killed when two car bombs exploded near interior ministry and security buildings in the Libyan capital, the first lethal attack of its kind since Muammar Gaddafi's fall last year, security sources have said.
Ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scenes of Sunday's dawn blasts, and large numbers of police cordoned off the sites before starting to remove the charred vehicles.
The first bomb blew up near the interior ministry's administrative offices in Tripoli but caused no casualties, the sources said. Police found another car bomb at the site of the explosion that had not blown up.
Minutes later, a car bomb exploded near the former headquarters of a women's police academy on Omar al-Mokhtar Avenue, which the defence ministry has been using for interrogations and detentions, the sources said, killing two people, both civilians, and wounding two.
The avenue, one of Tripoli's main thoroughfares, was closed to traffic, a correspondent with the AFP news agency reported. Checkpoints were set up on other major streets in the city centre.
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