Libyan loyalists killed one rebel and wounded 10 others as the insurgents moved on the town of Taurga in a bid to snuff out rocket fire on the besieged city of Misrata, medics said on Thursday.
Libyan loyalists killed one rebel and wounded 10 others as the
insurgents moved on the town of
Taurga
in a
bid to snuff out rocket fire on the besieged city of
Misrata
,
medics said on Thursday.
Inside the western port city, many streets were deserted as residents sought
respite indoors from the summer heat during the Muslim fasting month of
Ramadan, an AFP correspondent said.
But along
Tripoli Street
, the
city's main thoroughfare, a few people could be seen sorting through the
detritus of months of shelling and fighting, looking for belongings or just
tidying up the mess.
But attacks are a nearly a daily occurrence, with rockets ploughing into homes
and office buildings with only moments' notice and undoing what meager clean-up
efforts existed.
The street has been devastated by tank fire, Grad rockets and thousands upon
thousands of Kalashnikov rounds. Every building bears the scars of the
fighting, and life has been slow to get back to normal since rebels took the
city more than three months ago.
Meanwhile, doctors in the frontline town of
Zliten
, to
the west of Misrata, said there has been little fighting in recent days, with
only one serious injury reported on Wednesday.
Rebels had taken up defensive positions in the Souk Talat area of the city,
which the regime of strongman Moammar Gadhafi claimed in recent days was
entirely under its control.
Fresh fighting meanwhile erupted Wednesday at the strategic oil town of
Brega
, in
eastern
Libya
, an
AFP correspondent said.
Mortar rounds and rockets struck intermittently on both sides of the front at
Brega, one of the three main focuses in the Libyan conflict, with the other two
at the enclave of Misrata and the Nafusa mountains to the west.
Brega is home mainly to oil facilities, refineries, ports and a residential
area.
Rebels have been fighting since February to oust Gadhafi, who has been in power
for four decades.
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