Update: Five dead in suicide bombing at Libya Elections Commission building

High National Elections Commission in Tripoli, Libya, has been attacked by three suicide bombers leaving the building ablaze and killing several security personnel, and injuring others.
Local media reported Tripoli Field Hospital Head, Abdeldaiem Al-Rabti, as saying that at least five deaths and many injuries arrived at Abu Salim hospital in downtown the capital.
Identical sources reported that the attackers burnt some offices and clashed with the security personnel of the HNEC building before two of them blowing themselves up.
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