Tripoli: Forces loyal to fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have forced back Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters from from the city of Sirte.
NTC fighters say they are preparing themselves for a fresh round of assaults on Gaddafi’s birthplace, following the regrouping of the dictator’s loyalists in Sirte, Press TV reported.
The interim authorities also announced that they have uncovered a mass grave in the capital city of Tripoli, containing the corps of 1,270 inmates killed by the Gaddafi regime in a prison massacre.
According to Dr. Ibrahim Abu Sahima of the interim government committee overseeing the search for victims of the former regime, the site was found near Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison, where the victims were killed on June 26, 1996, after protesting conditions at the facility.
For the past two weeks anti-Gaddafi forces have been trying to enter his last remaining strongholds, Sirte and Bani Walid.
The revolutionaries captured the capital, Tripoli and Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound last month.
Libya has been the scene of intense fighting between government troops and opposition fighters since the revolution seeking to topple Gaddafi began in mid-February.
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