The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff members were reportedly killed Tuesday in an attack on the Libyan city of Benghazi, Reuters reports citing a Libyan official.
"The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them,'' the official in Benghazi told Reuters.
Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland tells Fox News they have no information on the report at the moment. The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli says they can only confirm there was an attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi and one State Department employee was killed, which Secretary of State Clinton said in a statement Tuesday.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was appointed as ambassador to Libya in May 2012, according to an online State Department biography.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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