Fighting breaks out in Bani Walid, Libya

  • 13 years ago
Fighting around Bani Walid has already started -- hours before a deadline for Gaddafi loyalists to surrender.
Anti-Gaddafi fighters returning from the frontline say Gadaffi forces attacked their positions with Russian rockets. Casualties being taken away from the front on Friday.
In Tripoli, the capital, locals searched for clues about missing loved ones outside a local hospital.
And a local morgue struggled to identify 18 bodies bodies found in a mass grave. Attendants have taken DNA samples to help with identification.
Fatigue after six months of war also brought thousands to Martyr's Square -- formerly known as Green Square -- where they called for unity and an end to the fighting.
Deborah Gembara, Reuters .

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