@GloireAmaniGloire Ammany Kabare
BBC News - Libya uprising: Gaddafi 'losing control of Sabha'bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…
Libya's interim rulers, the National Transitional Council, say their forces have now taken control of much of the city of Sabha, 750km (465 miles) south of Tripoli.
They said they had reached the city centre but that there was still resistance in some districts.
Sabha was considered one of the key remaining strongholds of fugitive leader Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
There are also reports of many deaths in Hun, near the desert town of Jufra.
"There are dozens of people killed and wounded in the town and we cannot reach them because of the fierce bombardment [by Gaddafi forces]," one witness told the AFP news agency by telephone.
Fierce fighting also continues at other Gaddafi hold-outs Bani Walid and Sirte.
Escape routeNTC military spokesman Ahmed Bani told Reuters: "We control most of Sabha apart from the al-Manshiya district. This is still resisting, but it will fall."
Mohammed Wardugu, of the Desert Shield Brigade that is fighting in the area, went further, telling AFP the city was "totally under the control of the revolutionaries".
The NTC had said on Monday that its forces had captured the airport and a leading garrison in Sabha, taking 150 prisoners from the Gaddafi forces.
