Reply #41: Factbox - Latest military activity in Libya

[joshcryer]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/16/uk-libya-nato-idUKTRE73F2FK20110416">Factbox - Latest military activity in Libya
* Libyan rebels made a renewed effort to push towards the oil port of Brega Saturday while Muammar Gaddafi's forces pounded besieged Misrata to the west with rockets and mortars, insurgents said.

* Six were killed and 16 wounded when Gaddafi loyalists fired rockets at a group of insurgents driving along the exposed coastal highway from the town of Ajdabiyah west towards Brega.

* Sustained anti-aircraft fire was heard in Tripoli on Saturday evening, a Reuters correspondent in the Libyan capital said.

* In Misrata, besieged for seven weeks, a rebel spokesman, Gemal Salem, said Gaddafi's forces pounded the town with rockets and mortars Saturday, targeting a dairy and another factory that makes cooking oil.

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