A bomb exploded Saturday in front of Egypt's consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, causing no casualties but some damage, a security official said.

"Unknown assailants in a vehicle threw an explosive device at the Egyptian consulate in Benghazi without causing casualties," said security spokesman Abdallah al-Zayedi.

A colonel in the restive Libyan city of Benghazi escaped a bomb attack on Tuesday after discovering the device placed under his car outside his home, a security official said.

The incident comes a day after a TV journalist survived an attack in Benghazi after coming under a hail of bullets.

Some 14,000 prisoners who escaped from various Libyan detention centers after the 2011 uprising against Moammar Gadhafi are still on the run, the interior minister said Monday.

Speaking less than three weeks after more than 1,200 detainees escaped during riots from a prison in the eastern city of Benghazi, Mohamed al-Cheikh told ministry officials the interior and justice ministries were "working together to get them back to prison so they can serve out their sentences".

Armed men fatally wounded one person and left several others injured at a Tripoli fairground on Friday night, security officials and police said.

"A group of criminals savagely opened fire at a fairground at Omar Mokhtar Street in Tripoli wounding three people but a seriously hurt woman died from her wounds when she arrived at the hospital," said Tripoli security headquarters on Facebook.

Libya's army said on Friday it had deployed reinforcements in the capital Tripoli and its suburbs to bolster security after weeks of deadly violence.

An Agence France Presse correspondent said he saw more than 100 armored troop carriers and military vehicles mounted with machineguns and anti-aircraft guns rumble into Tripoli late Thursday.

A Libyan doctor who hosted a television program on human development was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the restive eastern city of Benghazi on Friday, a security official said.

Azzedine Koussos, a presenter for Libya Al-Hurra television, was hit by several rounds as he sat in his parked car near a blood bank in Benghazi's Sidi Hussein district after weekly Muslim prayers, the source said.

A Tripoli court on Wednesday ordered the prosecution in the trial of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's last premier, accused of murder and corruption, to produce documents as sought by the defense.

"The prosecution must produce the items, audio recordings and pictures" seized from the offices of the former prime minister, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, said the judge, Saddok Taeib, before the trial was adjourned to October 9.

The U.S. Justice Department has filed the first criminal charges in the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.

The officials confirmed that a sealed complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington against an unspecified number of individuals in the September 2012 attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. One official said those charged included Ahmed Abu Khattala, the head of a Libyan militia. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss a sealed indictment.

A bomb exploded under a car Tuesday in Libya's Benghazi killing the driver, a security official told Agence France Presse, the latest in a wave of violence to hit the restive city.

The Mediterranean city in eastern Libya has been plagued by deadly violence since the 2011 uprising which toppled dictator Moammar Gadhafi, with attacks mostly targeting the security forces and judges.

Malta refused Tuesday to allow 102 migrants rescued from a leaking dinghy on to the island despite pressure from the European Commission to let them disembark on humanitarian grounds.

The migrants, including a four-month-old baby and four pregnant women, were rescued from their badly damaged inflatable boat on Monday by the Liberian-flagged Salamis oil tanker 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the Libyan coast.