Several Islamist groups are competing for control of the city, with some militants recently declaring allegiance to Islamic State.

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'We reject IS'

The BBC's Rana Jawad, in the capital, Tripoli, says that in the immediate aftermath of the revolution that ousted Gaddafi, many rebel fighters left to fight with militant groups opposing the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

Many of the fighters are believed to have returned home, settling in the east of the country, she says.
Islamist militants in Derna, Oct 2014 Derna has been out of government control since 2012

Beheadings are rare in Libya, our correspondent says, even in areas controlled by militant Islamists, and no group has so far said it carried out the latest killings

The activists have been named as Siraj Ghatish, Mohamed Battu and Mohamed al-Mesmari.

Our correspondent says they remained low-profile, mostly passing on information via social media pages.

Another activist in the city who cannot be named for reasons of safety, said: "We reject IS being here. We can't come out in public about it."

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