Loud explosions accept rocked the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for a third night as armament loyal to Muammar Gaddafi advance to stop any new advance from an all-embracing aggressive affiliation administration a no-fly breadth over the country.
Gunfire and anti-aircraft blaze aswell lit up the sky backward on Monday in and about the capital, breadth two ample explosions could be heard about 10 account afar anon afterwards 9pm, Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught, advertisement from Tripoli, said.
She said two argosy bases just alfresco the city-limits had reportedly been hit in the strikes.
"We could see an breadth of the anchorage on fire, essentially on fire, two big blazes. We saw blaze engines antagonism forth the littoral road.
"This black seems to accept been about targeting seaborne aggressive assets of Gaddafi's army, but aswell we are accustomed to accept [there was] an advance on the airport at Sirte."
Mussa Ibrahim, a government spokesman, told a account appointment that affiliation battery had dead civilians in anchorage areas and at Sirte airport, and bombarded the southern boondocks of Sebha, a breastwork of Gaddafi's Guededfa tribe.
Our contributor said it was difficult to anon affirm the government claims.
"We apprehend at some point if the casualties are as cogent as the Libyans are acceptable us they are, there will be some befalling to verify that for ourselves," she said.
'Military aggression'
Meanwhile, all-embracing affiliation armament reportedly addled alarm installations at two air defence bases acceptance to Gaddafi's armament in Benghazi in eastern Libya.
The developments came as the UN Security Board alone a Libyan appeal for an emergency affair to arrest what it alleged "military aggression" by affiliation armament three canicule afterwards they began ablution strikes aimed at disabling Libyan air defences.
The board absitively instead to authority a conference already planned for Thursday by UN secretary-general Ban
Ki-moon on how the resolution that set up the breadth to assure civilians in Libya is getting implemented.
Despite the air strikes, armament loyal to Gaddafi accept reportedly fabricated assets and abide to action on.
Libyan government agent Ibrahim said Misurata, Libya's third city-limits 214km east of Tripoli, was "liberated three canicule ago" and that Gaddafi's armament were hunting "terrorist elements".
But a agent for action fighters in the city-limits told the AFP account bureau that the action remained in ascendancy admitting an aggression by Gaddafi loyalists, who he said opened blaze with tanks and set snipers on roofs to gun down humans in the streets.
"Casualties fell in their dozens," afterwards snipers and a catchbasin "fired on demonstrators", the agent said.
A medic in Misurata accepted a afterlife assessment of 40 and said at atomic 300 humans had been wounded.
The action agent said Gaddafi's troops "have taken up position forth the capital alley breadth they accept deployed three tanks, as able-bodied as accession snipers on rooftops".
Western boondocks bombarded
Gaddafi armament aswell reportedly bombarded the western boondocks of Zintan for several hours afore noon.
"Several houses accept been destroyed and a abbey minaret was aswell brought down," Abdulrahmane Daw told the Reuters account bureau by buzz from the town.
"New armament were beatific today to assail the city. There are now at atomic 40 tanks at the foothills of the mountains abreast Zintan."
There was aswell angry angry added east in Ajdabiya. Action fighters were apparent beat in the face of an advance by government forces.
Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, advertisement from an breadth abutting to Ajdabiya, said there had been clashes alfresco the city.
"There's been abundant angry and abundant battery traveling on ... the rebels told me there accept been abundant casualties and there are a amount of corpses amid actuality and the boondocks [of Ajdabiya] that they accept been clumsy to reach."
He said the alley amid the eastern city-limits of Benghazi and Ajdabiya was blowzy with the "burned-out accident of what was Gaddafi's armour and tanks", destroyed in air raids by affiliation forces.
Government troops aloof 100km from Benghazi, the action stronghold, afterwards angry strafing by affiliation aircraft destroyed abundant of their armour, AFP reported.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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