Sunday, April 10, 2011

Mercenaries loyal to Muammar Gaddafi clashed with Libyan rebels in the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, rebel fighters said.

April 10th Updates

Posted on April 10, 2011 by admin
New York: 09:18 London: 14:18  Tripoli: 15:18
Al Jazeera13:09 Al Jazeera English Sue Turton, reporting from just north of Ajdabiya, says fighting is going on, mainly at the western side of the city.
“We’re seeing plumes of smoke and constant shelling … There are pockets of Gaddafi’s forces in the city.”
She said she’d been told that there were patients in a hospital who appeared to have been shot by sniper fire.
She described the city as something of a “ghost town” as not many civilians are left in the city. Many have fled eastwards to Benghazi.
11:53 Reuters Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi clashed with Libyan rebels in the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, rebel fighters said.
A Reuters witness at Ajdabiyah’s eastern gate heard shooting and artillery fire and saw plumes of black smoke, suggesting Gaddafi’s forces had pushed towards the centre of the town that is a gateway to the rebel-held east.
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One Response to April 10th Updates

  1. Tripoli says:
    April 10, 2011 at 12:59 pm
    11:53 Reuters – Mercenaries loyal to Muammar Gaddafi clashed with Libyan rebels in the strategic eastern town of Ajdabiyah on Sunday, rebel fighters said.
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