Gunmen assassinate Libyan deputy industry minister
Benghazi residents and Libyan security forces gather around a burning car after an explosion killed the military prosecutor for Western Libya Yussef Ali Al-Asseifar on August 29, 2013. On Saturday gunmen assassinated Libya's deputy industry minister Hassan Al-Drowi. Libya is still plagued by widespread violence and targeted killings two years after the civil war ousted Muammar Gaddafi.(AFP Photo/Abdullah Doma)
Tripoli, Reuters—Gunmen assassinated Libya's deputy industry minister Hassan Al-Drowi as he drove home from shopping in the coastal city of Sirte late on Saturday in an attack security officials blamed on hardline Islamist militants.
Libya is still plagued by widespread violence and targeted killings two years after the civil war ousted Muammar Gaddafi, with militants, militia gunmen and former rebels often resorting to force to impose demands on the fragile government.
Al-Drowi was shot several times, a senior security official said, asking not to be identified.
"They opened fire from another car while he was driving, he was shot multiple times," the official said. "Later, they found explosives attached to his car. The theory is, the bomb failed, so they shot him instead."
The official blamed Islamist militants who have been trying to extend their influence in Sirte, which has been more stable recently than the coastal capital of Tripoli, about 290 miles to the west, or the eastern city of Benghazi.
Sirte was the last bastion of Gaddafi loyalists in the war, and the strongman ruler was killed there on October 20, 2011.
Prime Minister Ali Zeidan's central government, weakened by political infighting and with only nascent armed forces, is struggling to wrest control back from areas where militias are still dominant.
For six months, armed protesters have controlled key oil terminal ports in the east of the country to demand more political autonomy and a greater share of the OPEC country's petroleum wealth.
In Benghazi, the armed forces have been fighting to control the influence of Ansar Al-Sharia, a hardline Islamist group Washington last week designated a terrorist organization.
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