By Libya Herald reporters.

Benghazi, 10 June 2017:

Benghazi’s mayor Abdelrahman Elabbar has this afternoon survived an assassination attempt.

Elabbar was returning to his home in Tabalino when a bomb,  apparently in a parked silver saloon, was detonated.

The mayor was shaken but unhurt though one of his bodyguards was slightly injured.

The armour-plated vehicle in which they were travelling was seriously damaged.