Gunmen assassinate eastern Libya security chief in Benghazi

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BENGHAZI, Libya, May 8 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead the intelligence chief for eastern Libya in Benghazi city on Thursday, a security spokesman said. Two masked gunmen opened fire on Colonel Ibrahim al-Senussi's car as it travelled through the port city, said Ibrahim al-Sharaa, spokesman for Benghazi's Joint Security Room. Car bombings and assassinations of soldiers and police ******rs have become common in Benghazi, where a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed minibus outside a special forces camp last week, killing two people. Libya's weak central government is struggling to control armed groups, militias and brigades of former rebels who helped oust long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in the 2011 civil war and who **w refuse to disarm.

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