Libya: Ferocious Fighting As Rebels Head For Centre Of Sirte -- The Telegraph
Libyan fighters push deep inside Colonel Gaddafi’s home town of Sirte, battling against weakening loyalist troops.
In ferocious close-contact, street-to-street fighting, they took a central residential complex about a mile and half (3km) inside the city.
The fighters are heading for the main street in the city centre, about half a mile away.
Men hunkered on the pavement behind a low wall, taking cover from incoming sniper rounds. Bullets hissed overhead, pinging against gum trees that lined what was once a sleepy neighbourhood.
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