Reply #17: Misrata: "It's a free-fire zone on civilians"

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(The link has an excellent video report from The Sunday Times' Marie Colvin in Misrata.)

Witnesses: Libyan government forces shelling civilian areas of Misrata


By the CNN Wire Staff
April 25, 2011 6:33 p.m. EDT


Tripoli, Libya (CNN) --

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"It's just hell," said Marie Colvin, a foreign affairs correspondent for the Sunday Times of London, who has been in the city for a week. "Civilian neighborhoods are being decimated as we speak."


She said that at least 10 people had been killed and at least 30 others wounded.

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Asked about the rebel army, she laughed. "We're talking about an army of shopkeepers, engineers, car mechanics," she said. "Very, very few trained military."

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"It's a free-fire zone on civilians," she said from the hospital, where she said she had seen casualties that ranged "from loss of limbs to an 8-year-old boy struck in the ankle by shrapnel. He'll keep the foot, but he was in bad shape."


Outside, a white tent served as a triage area; a refrigerator truck was packed with bodies.


When two people were killed in one house, the family got into a car, but it too was hit, killing a man and two children, she said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/25/libya.war/index.html