Updated: No reports of any Maltese injured in Tripoli blast

No reports have yet been received by the Foreign Ministry of any Maltese injured in a blast in Tripoli, a spokesman said this afternoon. A rocket-propelled grenade struck a residential building near a tower housing several foreign embassies and a major hotel in the Libyan capital, witnesses and a security source said There were no reported injuries in the incident in which a balcony of a residential block was charred and holed, a Reuters reporter on the scene said. A security source said the rocket was launched from car which burst into flames. There has been a spate of bombings in recent months in Libya - in April the French embassy in Tripoli was bombed, while in the volatile eastern city of Benghazi, four Americans - including the ambassador - were killed on September 11 last year. The explosion occurred in the car park of a residential compound next to Tripoli Towers, where the British and Canadian embassies as well as several foreign airlines and other companies are based. It was also about a kilometre away from Corintha's Bab Africa Hotel, which is used by foreign businessmen and government officials. The security source did not rule out that the rocket may have been...