A truck bomb explosion has killed at least sixty people and injured dozens others Thursday at a police training center in coastal town of Libya, Zlitan.
Thirty of the dead have been identified and most of them are policemen. The explosion occurred when the policemen gathered for a morning assembly.
Though it is not immediately known who was behing the attack, it is believed to be an act of the Islamic State (IS) militant group of Iraq and Syria as its affiliate Asmaq has been reportedly trying to gain control in the western part of the city.
A state of emergency has been announced in the Libyan capital Tripoli and nearby towns.
Hospitals in Zlitan and Tripoli have called for blood donations help.
United Nations’ special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, has strongly condemned the deadly suicide attack in a Twitter message and has called the people to unite against the threats of terrorism.
Since September 2014 the IS has been entrenched in the deeply divided country when several of the Libyans who fought for the militant group in Syria returned to join other extremist forces.
The alliance to IS leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi took over control over several cities of Libya and many oil sources too. It is believed the oil sources were taken over for funding to the group.
Since the fall of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi in 2011 the IS militant group has exploited the lack of stability in the country and also the division of Libyans based on politics and religion.
