Libya's rebel forces on Friday said an overnight night NATO strike on an operations centre in the western town of Zliten has killed Moammar Gadhafi's son Khamis, and more than 30 others.
Libya
's
rebel forces on Friday said an overnight night NATO strike on an operations
centre in the western town of
Zliten
has
killed Moammar Gadhafi's son Khamis, and more than 30 others.
Citing spies operating among Gadhafi's ranks, Mohammed Zawawi, a spokesman for
revolutionary militia groups, told AFP that Khamis was confirmed to be among
the dead.
"Overnight there was a aircraft attack by NATO on the Gadhafi operations
room in Zliten and there are around 32 Gadhafi troops killed. One of them is
Khamis," said Zawawi, a spokesman for the United Revolutionary Forces.
Khamis, who has long led pro-government militia fighters, was said to be
commanding the battle for Zliten--a Gadhafi bastion that has halted the rebel
advance on
Tripoli
.
The strike appears to have come just hours after
Tripoli
took
journalists on an escorted tour of the centre of Zliten, an effort to rubbish
rebel claims the town was under attack.
Fighters from the rebel enclave of Misrata, 60 kilometers (37 miles) to the
east, announced this week they had made progress in Zliten, a strategic coastal
town on the road to
Tripoli
.
But authorities in
Tripoli
quickly denied that claim, saying they controlled the entire town.
On Thursday an AFP journalist saw the town centre was in the hands of regime
forces, although intensive artillery fire was heard in the distance.
Residents said the frontline is located at a distance of 10 to 15 kilometers
(six to nine miles) east of the city centre while rebel official said they
control three neighborhoods in the town's east.
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