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Six soldiers from an elite1 Libyan army unit have been killed overnight by masked gunmen in the restive2 eastern city of Benghazi.
利比亚陆军一个精英部队的六名士兵一夜间在东部城市班加西被蒙面歹徒杀害。
Benghazi has become increasingly unstable amid clashes between militias and the regular forces of the new authorities A source at the army's command centre in the city told the BBC that the gunmen had attacked the headquarters of a special forces unit elite.
This then led to heavy fighting in the area, he added.
Benghazi was the centre of the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011.
It has become increasingly unstable amid clashes between militias made up of former rebels and the regular forces of the new authorities.
Militias with different tribal6 and ideological7 links control parts of the city, which has seen a wave of attacks on government security forces.
The official Facebook page of the special forces shows gruesome images of some of the soldiers who died in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The BBC's Rana Jawad says that two of the men who died appeared to have been summarily executed after being taken hostage by what the unit described as the Takfir group - a clear reference to Islamist militants8.
The latest clashes mark an escalation9 in the attacks against the special forces unit since they were deployed10 in the city about a month ago.
Previous incidents included their checkpoints being targeted in drive-by attacks.
Radical11 Islamists were blamed for an attack on the US consulate12 in Benghazi last September that killed four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens.
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