Tripoli: Five unidentified men gunned down five foreigners and three guards in Libya's luxurious Corinthia Hotel. The five men who were donning bulletproof vests barged into the hotel and opened fire.  

According to reports, five foreignerrs and three guards have been killed as a car bomb exploded in the hotel's parking lot burning five nearby hotels.

The SITE Intel Group has informed that the attack has been claimed by a group calling itself Islamic State's “Tripoli Province”, in what appears to be in retaliation to the death of Libyan al Qaeda militant Abu Anas al Libi.