By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab.

Tripoli, 11 January 2014:

A former security chief for the Wadi Shati area near Sebha was assassinated in Tipoli yesterday.

Mehdi Bin-Nasr Al-Maghrahi, the former head of the Supreme Security Committee (SSC) for Wadi Shati, was shot by unknown gunmen on Tripoli's airport road. He had just left a mosque after Friday prayers.

Investigations into the attack are underway.