AKIPRESS.COM - An armed group claiming loyalty to the Islamic State attacked the South Korean embassy in Libya on Sunday, killing two Libyan policemen, KBS World Radio News reports.

No South Korean nationals were injured in the attack, but the Korean government is considering withdrawing all embassy employees from Tripoli.
Our Kim In-kyung has more.

Report: An armed group attacked the South Korean embassy in Tripoli, Libya at around 1:20 a.m. Sunday, killing two Libyan policemen and seriously injuring another.

The armed group fired about 40 rounds of ammunition at the embassy compound from a passing vehicle before speeding away.

Two diplomats and one administrator who were at the embassy at the time of the attack were unharmed.

About two hours after the attack, a group calling itself the Soldiers of Caliphate, which claims loyalty to the Islamic State posted a tweet claiming responsibility for the shooting.

Sources in Libya said that the attack may have targeted embassy guards rather than the embassy itself. The sources said the guards who were killed in the attack appear to have been involved in a dispute and that police are investigating the incident.

A South Korean Foreign Ministry official also said earlier that the attack may have targeted the guards, noting that the militants' tweet only boasted about having eliminated the two guards.

The South Korean government is considering withdrawing all embassy employees from the Libyan capital amid heightened security concerns in the Middle East country.

Libya has been plagued by chaos since Islamic militants seized Tripoli last year and its government fled to the country's far east.