Car bombs hit Swedish consulate, mosque in Libya's Benghazi

Credit: Reuters/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

1 of 5. Security personnel and residents gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion at the Swedish consulate in Benghazi October 11, 2013.

The bomb exploded a day after Libya's Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was briefly abducted by a group of former rebels.

The Swedish foreign ministry said it had no information about the incident.

Nobody claimed responsibility for attack, which took place days after a U.S. special forces' raid captured a Libyan al Qaeda suspect in Tripoli, outraging Islamist militants, who called for revenge attacks.

Libya is deep in turmoil two years after the fall of Col. Muammar Gaddafi, with its central government and nascent army struggling to control rival militias and Islamist militants who have turned the vast North African country into a safe haven.

(Reporting by Ayman al-Warfalli; Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Angus MacSwan)