CAIRO, Apr 4 (Aswat Masriya) - Two Egyptian nationals were killed when a shell hit a Benghazi district late Friday, the state agency MENA reported.

A hospital media official told MENA that the bodies of the two deceased men were taken to hospital. They died instantly after the shelling and were transferred to the Benghazi Medical Centre to be examined by the forensic authority.

Libya has been faced with a wave of unprecedented violence for the past year, in which conflicting parties are attempting to control the country.

Libyan capital Tripoli has fallen under the control of the Fajr Libya or Libya Dawn Islamist militia in August 2014.

Meanwhile, Egypt and the international community only recognise authorities based in the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk.  

Many Egyptians residing in Libya have been caught up in the conflict which has recently proliferated in the neighbouring country.

Egypt's air force launched coordinated airstrikes on militant targets in Libya on February 16 in response to the beheading of 20 Egyptians at the hands of militants believed to belong to the Libya division of the Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria.