Police and military forces have been deployed in Tripoli to secure petrol stations, after 10 of them were vandalized and forced to close. A severed head was found in Benghazi, said to be that of the father of a senior Benghazi security official; the father was kidnapped weeks ago. The station manager for the state energy utility in Tobruk was assassinated by a car bomb; it is reportedly the first assassination in Tobruk since the Libyan revolution.