05 MAR 2011 11am EST - (AGI) Bengasi -At least 70 persons, militant rebels but also civilians, have been killed yesterday and today in combat in Zawiyah. Rebel sources report that the city, to the south-west of Tripoli, is currently theater to a violent battle with forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. According to the director of the opposition information center in Bengasi, Mohammed Salem Mussa, another 300 persons have been wounded and in the city, only 50 kilometers from Tripoli, "violent fighting continues." . .1605: With Zawiya the focus of the conflict today, a few facts about it: the population is just under 300,000, making it Libya's fourth-largest city. It has one of the country's most important oil refineries.
MaiSutherland RT @LibyaInMe: CONFIRMED:A caller from Zawiya now-Surrounded by tanks for 3 hrs.. Any1 in the streets is killed and many bodies laying there.
MaiSutherland RT @LibyaInMe: CONFIRMED:A caller from Zawiya now-Surrounded by tanks for 3 hrs.. Any1 in the streets is killed and many bodies laying there.
