Members of the Misurata seaport customs center announced that the head of the center, Colonel Khaled Arhouma Al-Dalaa, was subjected to an assassination attempt, but survived.
Unidentified persons shot Arhouma while he was driving his car back to Misurata from Tripoli on Monday, when he stopped to enter a mosque to perform the Maghrib prayer, according to a statement by the members of Misrata Customs on Tuesday.
The statement indicated that Arhouma was not injured in the accident, while his car was damaged, and the gunmen fled in an unknown vehicle.