Manchester bomber's younger brother 'was planning an attack on the UN's special envoy to Libya'

• Hashem Abedi plotted to kill head of UN Support Mission in Libya Martin Kobler
• Libyan security services believe Abedi to be 'significant player' in terrorist cell
• Group had planned to attack German Mr Kobler's convoy with explosive device  

The younger brother of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi was planning an attack on a United Nations special envoy.

Reports claim Hashem Abedi, 20, had plotted to assassinate Martin Kobler, the head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, during a visit to Tripoli earlier this year.

The terrorist cell were thought to be in the later stages of the plan, but it was foiled before it could be executed.

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