Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing of a Libyan police training centre on Thursday that killed at least 47 people in the worst militant attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
“This operation is one in a series of the battle of Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, which will not stop until we liberate all Libya,” the group’s Tripoli militancy said.
One of its militants had died carrying out the suicide bomb attack, it added, but Libyan authorities have not confirmed that detail.
The truck bomb exploded at the police training centre in the coastal town of Zliten just as hundreds of recruits had gathered for a morning meeting. More than 100 people were wounded, many by shrapnel.
Since a Nato-backed revolt ousted Gaddafi, turmoil in Libya has deepened, with two rival governments and a range of armed factions locked in a struggle for control of the Opec state and its oil wealth.
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