Libya weapons depot blast kills 17: doctor

BENGHAZI: Blasts at a Libyan military weapons depot killed at least 17 people outside the main rebel-held city of Benghazi on Friday, a hospital doctor said.

"Seventeen people expired from the Rajma explosion," the doctor at Al-Jala hospital told media.

Hospital official Nasser Tumi had earlier put the death toll at 12 with 26 wounded after witnesses reported twin simultaneous explosions at the Al-Rajma military base, southeast of Benghazi.

An AFP journalist who visited the hospital saw 11 bodies in the morgue, some of them horrifically disfigured and burnt. The corpses were wrapped in blankets and lined up on the floor, as medics rushed to treat the wounded. (AFP)