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Official: IS-Linked Group Kills 2 Policemen in Eastern Libya

by Associated Press

   BENGHAZI, LIBYA --

   A Libyan official says militants with links to the extremist Islamic
   State group have killed two policemen at a checkpoint east Libya.
   Security official Ahmed al-Gabiely says the attack took place early on
   Tuesday in the eastern town of el-Agheila when the armed men "slit a
   police officer's throat" and killed another in a shootout with security
   forces manning the checkpoint.
   He says the group later attacked a police station, raised the militant
   Islamic black flag atop the building and burned several police and
   ambulance vehicles.
   At least four people were reported missing after the attack.
   Al-Gabiely says the group has carried out similar attacks over the past
   months.
   Libya sank into lawlessness following a 2011 uprising that toppled and
   later killed a longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.