Wounded in Sirte
- 13 years ago
(ROUGH CUT-NO REPORTER NARRATION)
STORY: Libyan transitional government forces said they had cornered Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the center of the deposed leader's hometown on Monday (October 10), but many desperate civilians were still trying to flee the fierce street fighting.
A Reuters source said on Monday, 20 had died in fighting and 80 wounded.
NTC forces have struggled to take Sirte and a few other leftover bastions of Gaddafi loyalists, and this has impeded efforts to set up effective government nationwide and restart oil production, the lifeblood of the Libyan economy.
Most of the government forces attacking Sirte are from other towns and do not have much help from the inside as they did they when they captured the capital Tripoli on Aug. 23 and ended 42 years of one-man rule by Gaddafi after six months of civil war.
STORY: Libyan transitional government forces said they had cornered Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the center of the deposed leader's hometown on Monday (October 10), but many desperate civilians were still trying to flee the fierce street fighting.
A Reuters source said on Monday, 20 had died in fighting and 80 wounded.
NTC forces have struggled to take Sirte and a few other leftover bastions of Gaddafi loyalists, and this has impeded efforts to set up effective government nationwide and restart oil production, the lifeblood of the Libyan economy.
Most of the government forces attacking Sirte are from other towns and do not have much help from the inside as they did they when they captured the capital Tripoli on Aug. 23 and ended 42 years of one-man rule by Gaddafi after six months of civil war.