Reply #89: Gaddafi forces attack western towns, shell houses, kill farmers' livestock

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Sky news reports eyewitness accounts from embattled towns:

Two people were reported dead and four others wounded when troops loyal to Colonel Muammar
Gaddafi shelled residential areas in the city of Yafran, about 62 miles (100km) from Tripoli, early on
Sunday.

Gaddafi's forces were also killing farmers livestock there, residents said.

Further attacks were later launched in the nearby town of Zintan with tanks rolling in to the area and
opening fire.

A Yafran resident, known only as Ezref, told Arabiya television: "We are facing fierce attacks from the
north since yesterday."

"Two people have died a short while ago and so far we have four wounded.

"Residential areas have been shelled with Grad rockets."

While Zintan resident Abdulrahman said:

"Gaddafi's brigades bombarded Zintan with tanks in the early hours of Sunday.

"There has been random bombardment of the northern area. They are still besieging the town."

He added that he had been in touch with relatives in Yafran who told him pro-Gaddafi forces had moved
into the area around the town.

"They have been searching houses ... The soldiers have killed everything they found, including cattle.

They have killed and eaten a countless number of sheep.

"About 100 camels belonging to one of my relatives were killed. They kill everything."

The truth is out there, we’re sure, somewhere between the scorched earth and the long grass. And I
promise you we’re still searching.

--Sky News presenter Jeremy Thompson, in Tripoli

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