Tripoli, April 23 (IANS) An army captain and a civilian have been killed in clashes between the army and security personnel of the Interior Ministry in libya's Benghazi.
Both sides are loyal to the authorities, a military source said.
The clashes that lasted for several hours had erupted over some criminal cases, informed source told Xinhua news agency late on Sunday.
They lasted for hours and a captain of the battalion and a civilian was killed.
The North African country has suffered unrest in the past seven years after its former leader Muammar Gaddafi was toppled by an uprising in 2011.
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