Anti-graft activist among 4 dead in Libya blast

A prominent anti-corruption activist was one of four people killed in an explosion in Libya's second city of Benghazi, in the east of the strife-torn country, officials said Sunday.

Mohamad al-Azumi, a spokesman for forces allied with controversial Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, said the shell hit a group of cars, sparking the blast.

A medical official said the explosion on Saturday night killed four people and wounded 23 others, all of them civilians including "the well-known anti-corruption activist Mohamad Bugaighis".