CAIRO, May 23 (Aswat Masriya) - An Egyptian national residing in Libya was killed due to the "random" shelling of shop at the city of Benghazi on Saturday, reported the state news agency MENA. 

The killed citizen was transferred to hospital right after the shelling, a security source told MENA. He nevertheless died due to his wound.

The deceased, 30 years old, hails from the Egyptian governorate of Beheira, reported MENA. He worked at a food shop in the eastern Libyan city.

Libya has been caught up in unprecedented violence since May 2014, when army general Khalifa Haftar declared war on Islamist forces within Libya, prompting nationwide militant fighting.

Despite the violence faced by Egyptian nationals residing in Libya amid the militancy witnessed by the neighouring country, Egyptian workers have remained intent on traveling to Libya in search of better working conditions.

Egypt's air force conducted in February air strikes which it says hit militant targets, after the beheading of 20 Coptic Egyptians inside Libya at the hands of militants believed to belong to the Libyan division of the Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.