Libya was rocked by two suicide bomb attacks, on Tuesday, as suicide bombers hit Khalifa Haftars troops, who is leading an offensive against jihadists in an eastern town.
The bomb blasts were heard across Derna as the bombers hit the Chiha district in the south of the town, spokesman Khalifa al-Abidi said.
Though no death toll has been announced yet, civilians were among the casualties as the roof of a family home collapsed states Abidi.
Over the past month, the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has been engaged in an offensive to take Derna, the only eastern town outside Haftar’s control.
Derna is held by a ragtag alliance of Islamist and jihadist militias, including groups close to Al-Qaeda, hostile to both Haftar and the Islamic State group.
Abidi said the LNA is “advancing steadily to liberate a very small remaining pocket before liberating the whole of Derna.”
He said “terrorists” were “resorting to suicide attacks after they failed to tackle” the LNA conventionally.
critics of Haftar claim he wants to establish a military dictatorship.