A suicide bomber blew up a car outside the headquarters of libya's internationally recognised Parliament on Tuesday, wounding three lawmakers, a legislator said. The attack, which a medical source said wounded a total of 18 people, came as a libyan jet shot down a militia helicopter after Islamist-led fighters launched strikes on the eastern Al-Sidra oil terminal.
The car bomb struck near the back gate of the Dar al-Salam Hotel in the eastern city of Tobruk, where the Parliament elected in June took refuge after Islamist-led militias seized control of Tripoli in August. Farj Buhashem, a spokesman for the legislature, said parliament was meeting on the ground floor when the blast went off. "There was broken glass and some pedestrians were injured," he said.