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By Maria Golovnina
GARYAN, Libya | Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:55am BST
During the visit, reporters were shown a house where officials said a baby boy had been killed as a result of a coalition air strike on an ammunitions depot about 10 km away.
The ensuing explosion at the depot ignited rockets stored there and sent them flying in all directions, hitting residential houses, officials said. A similar story was presented to journalists a day earlier in the city of Mizdah.
"It was chaos," said Sabri Suwessi, the baby's uncle. Asked to show the rocket, he said someone from the Libyan army had taken it away.
The projectile appeared to have punched a small hole in the front wall of the apartment. Local residents showed pictures of the dead baby on their mobile phones. The baby was buried in a nearby cemetery.
Abdul Motalib said some families had fled the suburb since the trouble started a month ago.
In the nearby, more pro-Gaddafi, settlement of Aziziyah, angry mourners shot in the air and shouted slogans during the funeral of a man who officials said was killed during another air strike in the coastal city of Sirte.
Libyan officials say more than 100 civilians have been killed since the start of the coalition air campaign on March 19 but Western officials deny the charge, saying they are targeting only military targets consistent with their U.N. mandate.
(Writing by Maria Golovnina)
GARYAN, Libya | Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:55am BST
During the visit, reporters were shown a house where officials said a baby boy had been killed as a result of a coalition air strike on an ammunitions depot about 10 km away.
The ensuing explosion at the depot ignited rockets stored there and sent them flying in all directions, hitting residential houses, officials said. A similar story was presented to journalists a day earlier in the city of Mizdah.
"It was chaos," said Sabri Suwessi, the baby's uncle. Asked to show the rocket, he said someone from the Libyan army had taken it away.
The projectile appeared to have punched a small hole in the front wall of the apartment. Local residents showed pictures of the dead baby on their mobile phones. The baby was buried in a nearby cemetery.
Abdul Motalib said some families had fled the suburb since the trouble started a month ago.
In the nearby, more pro-Gaddafi, settlement of Aziziyah, angry mourners shot in the air and shouted slogans during the funeral of a man who officials said was killed during another air strike in the coastal city of Sirte.
Libyan officials say more than 100 civilians have been killed since the start of the coalition air campaign on March 19 but Western officials deny the charge, saying they are targeting only military targets consistent with their U.N. mandate.
(Writing by Maria Golovnina)
