Ex-Gadhafi Security Man Killed in Libya's Benghazi
Gunmen on Sunday killed a former security officer who served under slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi in the violence-ridden eastern city of Benghazi, security and medical sources said.
"Retired colonel Muftah Najem was shot dead," said a spokeswoman for Al-Jala hospital where the body was taken.
A security source said unidentified men fired from a vehicle as Najem was driving in Al-Sabri district, "killing him on the spot".
Benghazi, cradle of the 2011 uprising that toppled Gadhafi and led to his killing by rebels in October that year, has suffered a wave of attacks.
Both security forces and foreign missions have been targeted, including a September 2012 assault on the U.S. consulate that killed the ambassador and three other Americans.
The government has struggled to consolidate control in the vast and mostly desert country, which is effectively ruled by a patchwork of local militias and awash in heavy weapons looted from Gadhafi's arsenals.
Source: Agence France Presse
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