10/09/2011

Libya: 17 people killed and 300 injured in clashes


Πηγή: Newzfirst
Oct 9 2011


TRIPOLI - In Libya, at least 17 people have been killed and 300 injured in clashes between country's new regime fighters and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi at Sirte.

The National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters scored a strategic goal seizing a four-lane avenue which opens the way to a final assault on a key base of Gaddafi's troops.

According to NTC commanders the advancing forces reached within one kilometre of the Ouagadougou conference centre, a key base of pro-Gaddafi fighters as his loyalists responded with sporadic mortar and small arms fire, NTC commanders said they are also trying to gear up evacuation process as thousands of civilians still trapped in the ex-leader's hometown Sirte.


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