2 shot dead in attack on South Korean embassy in Libya

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last updated 13 April 2015

Two security guards were killed outside of the South Korean embassy in Tripoli Sunday, after gunmen inside of a vehicle fired 40 machine-gun rounds at a guard post.

Another guard was injured in the attack, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said. There were two diplomats and another South Korean national inside the embassy at the time of the incident, but they were not hurt. Two hours after the attack, a group calling itself the Tripoli chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter, but the claim has not been verified by authorities.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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