Shelling kills 4 at Benghazi rally
The conflict led to a chaotic security vacuum, in which Islamist militants have gained ground.
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Women and children were among the wounded when the shells hit Al-Keesh square. Demonstrators had gathered in support of the Libyan National Army, whose leader General Khalifa Haftar is spearheading a campaign against Islamist militants.
A U.N.-backed unity government in Tripoli is trying to end a conflict between rival factions, one of which took over the capital in 2014 and forced the other to rebase in the east of the country.
It was not clear who had fired the shells at the rally. Benghazi has been one frontline in Libya's multi-sided war, with Haftar managing this year to drive Islamist militants and other rival armed factions out of the city. But fighting continues on the city outskirts.
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