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BBC NewsAt least 11 rebel fighters have been killed in a Nato air strike in the besieged Libyan port city of Misrata, say reports.
A rebel commander and witnesses told reporters a Nato warplane had carried out Wednesday's bombing, but Nato refused to confirm or deny the reports.
A doctor told Reuters news agency seven rebels had also been killed in fire from government forces.
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Survivors quoted by US broadcaster CNN said 11 fighters had been killed and two injured in the strike on the coast, while a rebel commander, Abdullah Mohammed, told the New York Times 12 had died and five had been injured in apparently the same attack.
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MISURATA, Libya — NATO warplanes attacked a rebel position on the front lines of this besieged city here on Wednesday, killing 12 fighters in what the rebels called a friendly fire accident.
The rebels, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, were at first reluctant to admit the accident had occurred, not wanting to discourage further strikes against the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. The pace of NATO strikes had picked up noticeably in recent days, after rebel leaders complained of a lack of support in the weeks after the United States turned over operational control of the air campaign to NATO at the end of March.
The airstrike hit a salt factory in the Qasr Ahmed neighborhood at 4:30 p.m. local time. The rebels had been using it as a forward position since at least yesterday, they said, and had notified NATO of their presence there. In early April, NATO admitted its warplanes twice hit rebel positions, killing more than a dozen men, and expressed regret after the second.
NATO could not be immediately reached for comment on this latest incident.
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/nato-strike-kills-12-libyan-rebels-in-misurata-t50346.htmlA doctor in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata has said a Nato air strike the previous day killed 12 rebels.
Dr Hassan Malitan said he was with the men minutes before two missiles struck the building they were occupying.
Malitan said he was driving away from the house on Wednesday afternoon when he heard a loud boom and felt the ground shake.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/28/nato-air-strike-misrata-rebels