{"id":48435,"date":"2026-10-19T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48435"},"modified":"2026-10-19T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:58:59","slug":"nine-security-agency-members-killed-in-blast-west-of-libyan-capital-tripolis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nine-security-agency-members-killed-in-blast-west-of-libyan-capital-tripolis\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nine security agency members killed in blast west of Libyan capital Tripoli&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">At least nine members of a security agency were killed and several \u200bothers wounded by a mortar blast \u200cduring a training exercise in a city west of Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli late on Sunday, a \u200blocal television channel said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The blast, from an \u200b82mm mortar round, caused casualties among \u2060members of the Anti-Threat Security Agency, according \u200bto Libya\u00a0<i>Alahrar<\/i>\u00a0television channel broadcasting from Istanbul.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The \u200bAgency is a security force under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid \u200bDbeibah, according to the force&#8217;s verified \u200bFacebook page.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There was no immediate comments by authorities on \u200cthe \u2060incident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Citing medical sources, Libya\u00a0<i>Alahrar TV<\/i>\u00a0channel said other individuals were wounded, without saying how many.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The incident took place in Zawiya, which \u200bis home \u200bto country&#8217;s \u2060largest operating oil refinery, around 40 km (25 miles) west of Tripoli, \u200band has been the site of \u200brepeated \u2060clashes between rival armed groups.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Libya has been plagued by unrest since the overthrow of \u2060Muammar \u200bGaddafi in 2011 and remains \u200bdivided between rival authorities in the country&#8217;s west and \u200beast.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14609,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-48435","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The \u200bAgency is a security force under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid \u200bDbeibah, according to the force's verified \u200bFacebook page.","published_date":"","news_description":"The \u200bAgency is a security force under the UN-recognized Government of National Unity led by Prime Minister Abdulhamid \u200bDbeibah, according to the force's verified \u200bFacebook page.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48437,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48435\/revisions\/48437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}