The US ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car in Benghazi on Tuesday night. According to Reuters, gunmen had attacked and burned the US consulate in Benghazi, killing one US consular official. Christopher Stevens was being driven from the consulate to a safer location when the rocket attack occurred. Al-Jazeera earlier reported that Stevens and three others died from smoke inhalation after attackers set the US consulate on fire. (This animation was based on information available at 1030 GMT.)
