Zliten truck bombing [SEP] point in time
Zliten truck bombing
The Zliten truck bombing occurred on 7 January 2016, when Islamist militants detonated a truck bomb at the police training camp al-Jahfal in the coastal town of Zliten, Libya. Libyan authorities said at least 60 policemen were killed and over 200 were wounded. Concrete buildings inside the compound were charred from the blast and their windows blown out; nearby cars were turned into black and twisted metal wrecks. The head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, said the blast was a suicide
intensive NATO bombing broke through the front line in several places west of Misrata, advanced and captured abandoned tanks, artillery and truck-mounted grad rocket launchers near the town of Zliten. In the Nafusa Mountains rebels captured one town, Hawamid, and surrounded a second, Tiji, south west of Tripoli.
Conflict and military operations Acceleration of the rebel offensive 1 August.
The rebels entered the town of Zliten.
Conflict and military operations Acceleration of the rebel offensive 3 August.
The rebels defeated an attempt by Gaddafi's forces to