Ahmed Elumami TRIPOLI — The General Military Prosecutor Yousef Al-Asayfer and his brother were killed in a car bomb attack in Benghazi Thursday. “The incident happened in Al-Laythi District at 1.45 p.m., while the Al-Asayfer brothers were coming out from a mosque,” Benghazi Joint Security Room spokesman Abdullah Zaidi told the Libya Herald. Reports indicate that the bomb was by a remote control, Zaidi explained, adding that BJSR have started the investigations. The prosecutor was killed instantly in the attack. Youself himself was rushed to Benghazi Medical Center, Zaidi said, but he was declared dead on arrival. “He joined the revolution early on and he was a good man and well respected,” a senior Benghazi military official said. There have been a series of assassinations and attacks targeting security and military men in Libya generally, and in Benghazi and Derna in particular over the past year, the aim of which is seen no longer as revenge against individuals involved in the Gaddafi regime, rather the destabilization of the city and the country. Last Friday, a senior bomb disposal expert who had been serving with the city's criminal investigation department, Col. Mustafa Agela Almugrbi, was gunned down as he walked with his son from a Benghazi mosque after Friday prayers. In the past few days, at least six men have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the terror campaign. — Libya Herald
