One person was killed and at least 12 others, including women and children, were injured when indiscriminate rocket shells fell on a condolences tent in Bouhdima district of Benghazi.

The east-based Administrative Control Authority of the House of Representatives in Tobruk called on Monday for the release of its chairman Abdelsalam Al-Hassi who was abducted late on Sunday.

House of Representatives (HoR) member Ms. Siham Sirgiwa is still missing over a month after her abduction. She had been abducted from her home in the eastern city of Benghazi on 17 July.

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared that an “internal investigation” will be conducted to establish the circumstances of the attack in Benghazi, which killed three United Nations Support Mission staffers among five in total and wounded many others.

Sources from the city of Al-Bayda east of Libya confirmed the kidnapping of the head of the military intelligence service of Haftar forces, Ramadan Albarasi, on July 30, from his home in Benghazi.

The Interior Minister of the Interim Government of eastern Libya Ibrahim Bushanaf has accused “terrorist groups” and “sleeper cells” of kidnapping the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) Siham Sergiwa, adding that the case is still under investigation.

The family of a Libyan member of parliament who was abducted after she criticised rogue General Khalifa Haftar, fear she may have been tortured or sexually abused by her captors.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and all member states should form an investigative committee into the disappearance of Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) member Siham Sergewa, lawmaker Jalal al-Shuwaihdi has said.

The member of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) for Benghazi Jalal Al-Shuwaihdi has asked the UN Security Council to probe the kidnapping of HoR member Siham Sirgiwa by Khalifa Haftar’s forces.

The Tripoli-based House of Representatives (HoR) said Sunday that “renegade Khalifa Haftar” is legally and morally responsible for the kidnapping of the HoR member Siham Sirgiwa.