Unidentified gunmen assassinated, on Sunday, Shoaib Boumediene, a leader in the eastern forces led by retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, in the center of the city of Benghazi (eastern Libya).
And Anadolu Agency quoted an official - who preferred not to be named - as saying that gunmen on board a four-wheel drive vehicle got out of their car and opened fire with automatic rifles on Captain Shoaib Boumediene in the Venice region, which is the largest commercial street in Benghazi, which led to his death.
The official indicated that an immediate investigation was launched into the incident, and the content of the surveillance cameras of the shops at the crime scene was being unloaded, without adding other details.
Boumediene was working as a criminal investigation officer (affiliated with the police), before joining the eastern forces led by Haftar, in which he headed one of the military units of Major General Tariq bin Ziyad, which is the largest and most equipped force led by Saddam Khalifa Haftar, according to the same agency.
Boumediene's assassination comes a year after the assassination of Captain Mahmoud al-Werfalli, commander of the 50th Thunderbolt Brigade of eastern Libyan forces, on March 24, 2021, and before that, Benghazi witnessed almost daily assassinations of police and army members, journalists and supporters of Muammar Gaddafi's regime.