Friday, April 29, 2011

Clashes between insurgents and loyalists to the Libyan border with Tunisia

Fierce fighting between insurgents and Thursday, April 28 loyalists on both sides of the Libyan border post Tunisian-Libyan Dehiba, captured by insurgents, while a thousand people evacuated Misrata, 200 km east of Tripoli. By early evening, several sources indicated that insurgents opposed to Colonel Gaddafi had resumed in late afternoon the border post Dehiba during a violent confrontation in which eight soldiers were killed loyalists.

Wearing Misrata's third largest city of Libya, was attacked Tuesday in bombings carried out by the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, who forced the ship chartered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to stay off for the docks Wednesday morning, once the port "secured" by the rebels.

The boat was loaded with 1,091 passengers, the vast majority of Nigerians, who must be taken to a refugee camp built in central Benghazi. He also carried Sudanese, Egyptians, Tunisians and Libyans in need of care 30 and 50 attendants. Five friends of the blogger said in an email shared with having gone to Elui Misrata to cover the uprising Libyan alternative media.

According to the IOM, nearly 626,000 people have fled violence in Libya, and the organization has evacuated more than 5,500 mostly foreign workers stranded in the country.

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