TRIPOLI, Aug 19, 2012 (AFP) - Twin blasts that killed two people in the Libyan capital early on Sunday were car bombs, Tripoli's security chief Colonel Mahmud al-Sherif told AFP, blaming loyalists of now slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
"They were two car bombs detonated by remote control," Sherif said, adding that four people were also wounded.
The bombs struck at dawn near the interior ministry and near the military academy on Omar al-Mokhtar Avenue.
The avenue, one of Tripoli's main thoroughfares, was closed to traffic, an AFP correspondent reported. Checkpoints were set up on other major streets in the city centre.
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