http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12726032Muammar Gaddafi have advanced on rebel-held strongholds, reportedly recapturing the eastern town of Brega.
Dozens of rebel fighters pulled out of the area amid heavy shelling.
"Brega has been cleansed of armed gangs," a military source told Libyan state television.
Libyan rebel forces have been losing ground for days, including the key oil port of Ras Lanuf on Saturday....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/gaddafi-forces-rout-rebels-brega-east-libyaMuammar Gaddafi's forces were routing Libyan rebels in the east of the country today, driving the revolutionaries into full retreat from the town of Brega with a rain of rockets and shelling.
The rebel army fled in hundreds of pick-up trucks, many with machine guns mounted on the back, and saloon cars back toward the nearest major town of Ajdabiya. Some of the revolutionaries, many of whom are young men with no previous combat experience, appeared close to panic. Many of the remaining civilians in the area fled with them.
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"They shot 40 to 60 rockets at the same time. The sky was raining with rockets, with shrapnel. There was heavy artillery. Then they advanced," he said. "It was impossible to stay."
Refadi said that among the victims was a seven year-old boy who lost part of his skull and brain and who he expected to die. He said he also saw four civilians, three men and a woman, dead beside the road.
The regime's assault came after it seized control of the strategic oil town of Ras Lanuf yesterday. With the opposition line broken, Gaddafi's forces appeared to have little trouble moving on Brega about 90 miles along the road towards the rebel capital of Benghazi.
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