Blast rocks hotel in Libya's Benghazi

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Source: al Jazeera

A huge car bomb has rocked a major hotel in Benghazi, the Libyan rebels' city in the east of the country, but caused no casualties, witnesses and police say.

Two cars were destroyed in the explosion, which occurred in the parking lot of the Tibesti hotel, used by rebel leaders, journalists and senior officials of the National Transitional Council (NTC), the main rebel administration in eastern Libya.

Hotel staff said there were no immediate reports of injuries and the cause of Wednesday's blast was not clear.

A police officer said a bomb was detonated in one car and the blast damaged a second car parked next to it.

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