Reply #100: Gadhafi forces shell frontline city in west Libya [View All]

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By BEN HUBBARD, Associated Press – 16 mins ago


MISRATA, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled civilian areas in the rebel-held city of Misrata on Thursday, killing 10 people. Regime supporters and opponents battled on another front in western Libya for control of a crossing point along the Tunisian border, killing refugees as they fled.


Rockets and other artillery fire slammed into Misrata's western Garara neighborhood, sending up deadly showers of shrapnel. At the city's Hikma hospital, relatives shouting "God is great" collected the dead, each with the word "martyr" written in marker on their white funeral shrouds.

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"Everything was normal and nothing was going on, and then all of a sudden these missiles came down and exploded in our neighborhood," said 46-year-old Ali al-Ghoul, who was leaving a mosque when eight rockets struck nearby, killing five of his neighbors.

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In fighting along the Tunisian border, control of the Dehiba crossing point was switching between the two sides Thursday. Rebels seized it a week ago, and government forces trying to retake it fired Grad rockets, including some that hit Tunisian soil, according to Tunisia's state news agency.


The fighting sparked panic among refugee families who had just crossed or were trying to cross the border, said witness Mohamed Hedia, a resident of the town on the Tunisian side of the border. There was no confirmed death toll, but Hedia said the dead numbered about 20.

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