TRIPOLI: Clashes Saturday between pro-government forces and fighters in Bani Walid, once a bastion of Libya’s fallen leader Muammar Qaddafi, have killed 26 people and wounded more than 200, medics said.
Hospitals in the city of Misrata, where forces loyal to the new regime are being treated, were overwhelmed with casualties.
One medical official cited by the official news agency put the death toll at 22, with more than 200 wounded.
A medical official in Bani Walid, which has been under siege for more than two weeks, told AFP: “Four people were killed, including a three-year-old girl.”
The violence comes exactly one year after Qaddafi was captured and killed in his hometown Sirte, the last city to fall to NATO-backed rebels in the 2011 conflict that ousted his regime.
26 killed in clashes in ex-Qaddafi bastion: medics
26 killed in clashes in ex-Qaddafi bastion: medics
