Tripoli, March 11: AT least four people have been killed and 35 wounded in Libya’s oil town of Ras Lanuf as rebels retreated under continuous government rocket and sniper fire, a hospital official says.
There were scenes of chaos at Brega hospital, where some of the bodies and wounded were being taken and the more serious cases being transferred to Ajdabiya, the next town further east into rebel-held territory on the coast.
“We have four dead and 35 wounded, but there’s still many more coming,” Said Boukhatwa, the hospital official registering the casualties, said overnight.
It was not immediately possible to speak to doctors, who were preoccupied with the wounded, moving out medical supplies and barking orders at each other.
Mohammed Wanis, hospital manager, said scores had been wounded but not all the casualties were brought to Brega.
“We expect to find more bodies,” he said.
——–Agencies