A retired Libyan colonel was assassinated in Benghazi yesterday, and the son of another Benghazi security official died from gunfire wounds received a day earlier. A driver for the military police was wounded in a separate attack yesterday. Two soldiers were kidnapped in Benghazi, and the body of a man who had been shot in the head was found in the city. Members of the 427 Brigade, traveling in 32 armed vehicles, fired Grad missiles into the Al-Shola oil facility and the Sarir power station, injuring two people and hitting electrical turbines and setting workers’ housing on fire.
