Zaouiyah City, located 50 km west of Tripoli was the scene of violent clashes Thursday, January 24. According to the paper's website Kourin, Libyan media rarely cover in detail the revolt, at least ten people were killed and dozens wounded. But the toll could be heavier because the intensity of the fighting prevented the delivery of victims to hospitals.
Witnesses reported gunfire from heavy weapons and scenes of chaos in the city, which seems to have become the main issue of the uprising on Thursday. Zaouiyah on the Mediterranean coast, lies on the main road linking the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the capital. It houses including an oil terminal.
Images broadcast Thursday by Al Jazeera showed a police station on fire and a score of corpses in the city. "I heard gunfire at Zaouiyah. People were running around the streets with weapons," said an Egyptian carpenter, having won Tunisia. "There are many people in civilian shooting each other.
There seems to be pro-Gaddafi and their enemies," said another witness. "It's chaos out there. There are people with guns and swords. "Another Egyptian 25 who fled the city said Thursday that the insurgents, armed and numbering several hundred, were placed in the streets of the gates bristling with nails serving as a makeshift harrows to impede the movement of military vehicles.
Riding in jeeps, the security forces, equipped with rocket launchers were deployed in force around the city, according to witnesses. In his speech on Thursday, Muammar Gaddafi has described the events of Zaouiyah ridiculous. "healthy people do not participate in this farce," he said. Urging people to remember the protesters, the Libyan leader said: "I'm sure the people of Zaouiyah will defend themselves, they are honorable people, I trust them.
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Witnesses reported gunfire from heavy weapons and scenes of chaos in the city, which seems to have become the main issue of the uprising on Thursday. Zaouiyah on the Mediterranean coast, lies on the main road linking the Tunisian border to Tripoli, the capital. It houses including an oil terminal.
Images broadcast Thursday by Al Jazeera showed a police station on fire and a score of corpses in the city. "I heard gunfire at Zaouiyah. People were running around the streets with weapons," said an Egyptian carpenter, having won Tunisia. "There are many people in civilian shooting each other.
There seems to be pro-Gaddafi and their enemies," said another witness. "It's chaos out there. There are people with guns and swords. "Another Egyptian 25 who fled the city said Thursday that the insurgents, armed and numbering several hundred, were placed in the streets of the gates bristling with nails serving as a makeshift harrows to impede the movement of military vehicles.
Riding in jeeps, the security forces, equipped with rocket launchers were deployed in force around the city, according to witnesses. In his speech on Thursday, Muammar Gaddafi has described the events of Zaouiyah ridiculous. "healthy people do not participate in this farce," he said. Urging people to remember the protesters, the Libyan leader said: "I'm sure the people of Zaouiyah will defend themselves, they are honorable people, I trust them.
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