At least five people were killed and six wounded when a suicide bomber drove a car laden with explosives into a checkpoint in the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya late on Thursday, Reuters reports.
The explosion hit the eastern exit of Ajdabiya, a town south of Benghazi, a military source said. It is close to the oil export ports of Brega and Zueitina.
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No further details or claim of responsibility were immediately available. Some six cars were damaged by the blast, a witness said.
The town is controlled, as is much of eastern Libya, by forces of Khalifa Haftar allied to a parallel government based in the east.
