LIBYA: Rebels fighting on the front line near western Misrata city come under heavy artillery fire from the forces of Muammar Gaddafi

Record ID: 374858

  • Title: LIBYA: Rebels fighting on the front line near western Misrata city come under heavy artillery fire from the forces of Muammar Gaddafi
  • Date: 9th July 2011
  • Summary: MISRATA, LIBYA (JULY 8, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF REBELS TAKING POSITION GENERAL VIEW OF FRONT LINE SMOKE ARISING FROM SITE UNDER ATTACK REBELS TALKING TO EACH OTHER REBELS IN VEHICLE REBELS NEAR VEHICLE CARRYING HEAVY ARTILLERY / AUDIO OF SHELLING /SMOKE FROM SHELLING REBELS POSITIONED IN MIDDLE OF ROAD REBELS TALKING POSITION / AUDIO OF SHELLING FIGHTER RUNNING
  • Embargoed: 24th July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Libya
  • Country: Libya
  • Reuters ID: LVA7JFFW1WO2CARTU5RDN7UMTI11
  • Story Text: Libyan rebels came under heavy fire from Muammar Gaddafi's forces on the front line near Misrata on Friday (July 8) on the country's Mediterranean coast.
    At least five rebels were killed and 17 more injured, according to local medical workers.
    A Reuters team near the front saw a mortar shell land near a rebel unit.
    Five members of the rebel unit were injured, two of them seriously.
    A rebel sympathiser in Misrata said that rebels had been moving closer to neighbouring Zlitan, one of a chain of government-controlled towns blocking their advance to Tripoli.
    As they advanced, pro-Gaddafi forces inside the city fired rounds of explosives to block their progress, the sympathiser said in an e-mail.
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