Fierce fighting continued on Saturday in the rebel-held city, Zawiyah, 30 miles from the capital of Libya, Tripoli. The number of victims increased to 60 people.
According to Sky News reports, the attack at Zawiyah was started on Friday night to Saturday morning by Muammar al-Gaddafi’s forces that used artillery and heavy equipment tanks, broke the defense of rebel forces and managed to enter the city.
Zawiyah which has population of about 300,000 people at this time is surrounded by Gaddafi’s forces who reportedly waited for reinforcements.
In Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, government troops are believed to have killed at least 27 people after the bombing on a weapons depot.
More than 2,000 people had been killed in clashes that began in the North African country on 15th February.
Meanwhile, the rebels said that they had dropped the fighter aircraft in the area near the city of Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, on Saturday. This city a day earlier was seized by government forces.
“I saw with my own eyes a plane crashed and two pilots died, they were bound in his chair and one of them broke his head,” said Ahmed Haram, one of the unarmed rebels.
“The plane was a fighter aircraft. I could not tell how many bodies were there because their bodies are destroyed,” said a rebel, Tawfiq al Ushilia.
According to Sky News reports, the attack at Zawiyah was started on Friday night to Saturday morning by Muammar al-Gaddafi’s forces that used artillery and heavy equipment tanks, broke the defense of rebel forces and managed to enter the city.
Zawiyah which has population of about 300,000 people at this time is surrounded by Gaddafi’s forces who reportedly waited for reinforcements.
In Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, government troops are believed to have killed at least 27 people after the bombing on a weapons depot.
More than 2,000 people had been killed in clashes that began in the North African country on 15th February.
Meanwhile, the rebels said that they had dropped the fighter aircraft in the area near the city of Ras Lanuf, eastern Libya, on Saturday. This city a day earlier was seized by government forces.
“I saw with my own eyes a plane crashed and two pilots died, they were bound in his chair and one of them broke his head,” said Ahmed Haram, one of the unarmed rebels.
“The plane was a fighter aircraft. I could not tell how many bodies were there because their bodies are destroyed,” said a rebel, Tawfiq al Ushilia.
