A car bomb exploded today in front of the hotel that houses Libya's elected parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk, officials said.

The device went off in the hotel's parking lot while lawmakers were in session in a nearby hall, parliamentary spokesman Farraj Hashem said.

A security source there several people had been wounded.

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