Tripoli, April 07: A NATO airstrike on a military tank near the eastern Libyan town of Brega has left two revolutionary forces dead and 10 others wounded.
“It was the planes of NATO. They fired twice at our tank and blew up the tank’s position,” said an anti-government revolutionary on Thursday,
According to the medics at a hospital in the nearby town of Ajdabiya, two anti-government forces died and around 10 were wounded in the attack.
Libyan anti-government forces, inspired by revolutions that toppled authoritarian rulers in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt, are fighting to unseat Muammar Gaddafi after suffering under his despotic rule for over 41 years.
Gaddafi’s bloody repression of anti-government protesters has claimed the lives of thousands of people since the beginning of the revolution in mid-February.
Dozens of civilians have also been killed in crisis-hit Libya since US-led forces launched aerial and sea attacks on the North African country began last month.
Media reports say hundreds of people, many of them civilians, have been killed in US-led airstrikes in the country.
—Agencies