Renewed strikes on Gadhafi compound
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May 13, 2011, Friday
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NATO airstrikes struck Moammar Gadhafi's sprawling compound in Tripoli and three other sites early yesterday, hours after the Libyan leader was shown on state TV in his first appearance since his son was killed nearly two weeks ago.
Explosions thundered across the capital and ambulances raced through the city as the last missile exploded.
Government officials and state-run Libyan television said the strikes targeted Bab al-Azaziya, Gadhafi's compound, but did not specify which buildings were hit. Reporters who were taken there later yesterday saw one missile-damaged building, and evidence that at least three missiles had hit the compound.
NATO, which has hit the Libyan capital repeatedly this week, said yesterday's attack successfully hit "a large command and control bunker complex in downtown Tripoli that was used to coordinate attacks against civilian populations."
After the early-morning airstrikes, medics arrived at Khadra Hospital with the bodies of two men who they said were killed in the attack. One of bodies was charred; the other was covered by a green blanket, a leg dangling from the stretcher.
From a bus ferrying reporters to the hospital, smoke could be seen rising from part of the Gadhafi compound. Skid marks left from screeching vehicles crisscrossed the roads around it.
The medics said others had been killed by the airstrikes and were still being retrieved from the compound.
Explosions thundered across the capital and ambulances raced through the city as the last missile exploded.
Government officials and state-run Libyan television said the strikes targeted Bab al-Azaziya, Gadhafi's compound, but did not specify which buildings were hit. Reporters who were taken there later yesterday saw one missile-damaged building, and evidence that at least three missiles had hit the compound.
NATO, which has hit the Libyan capital repeatedly this week, said yesterday's attack successfully hit "a large command and control bunker complex in downtown Tripoli that was used to coordinate attacks against civilian populations."
After the early-morning airstrikes, medics arrived at Khadra Hospital with the bodies of two men who they said were killed in the attack. One of bodies was charred; the other was covered by a green blanket, a leg dangling from the stretcher.
From a bus ferrying reporters to the hospital, smoke could be seen rising from part of the Gadhafi compound. Skid marks left from screeching vehicles crisscrossed the roads around it.
The medics said others had been killed by the airstrikes and were still being retrieved from the compound.
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