Libyan city of Benghazi hit by two explosions Published duration 28 July 2013

media caption Emily Thomas reports on the chaotic scenes at Liberation Square after the blast

Two explosions have hit the restive Libyan city of Benghazi - both outside buildings used by the judiciary.

A security spokesman told the BBC that 10 people had been injured but there were no deaths.

The blasts are the latest in a series of violent incidents in Benghazi.

On Saturday about 1,200 prisoners escaped from a city jail, and protesters attacked offices linked to the Muslim Brotherhood following the assassination of a political activist.

Mohamed al-Hijazy, a spokesman for the city's military command centre, told the BBC that one of the blasts was caused by anti-tank explosives placed under a car near a courthouse.

Residents living nearby said the building had sustained significant damage.

The other explosion occurred in front of an office belonging to the justice ministry, Mr al-Hijazy told reporters.

He said he believed that some the prisoners who escaped from the al-Kwafiya prison on Saturday were responsible for the latest attack

He told the BBC that the explosions had "some of the hallmarks of other similar incidents that some of these prisoners were convicted of."

One of the courthouses is in a popular square - Maidaan al-Shajara- where many of the protests against former leader Muammar Gaddafi were held back in 2011.

According to the BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli, the explosions happened just as people were breaking fast for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, and when no one would have been on the streets.