Monday, April 18, 2011

A thousand killed in Misrata over last six weeks

Fighting in the besieged city of Misrata claimed the lives of a thousand people in six weeks of fighting and vast numbers want to flee
Libya
Snipers, cluster bombs and intense shelling is spreading panic in Misrata, an AFP reporter said, as a doctor reported 1,000 people killed in six weeks of fighting in the besieged city.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) warned that the vast numbers wanting to flee the city, about 215 kilometres (130 miles) east of Tripoli, was threatening to overwhelm an international sea rescue operation.

On the political front, Britain insisted that it would not send ground forces into Libya
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