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Summary National Transitional Council fighter has said forces are gradually seizing control of Sirte.
Sniper fire flashed out from the defenders of Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte as fighters loyal to the new government seized the airport and ripped down billboards of the fugitive former leader.Hundreds of soldiers rode into the battle on tanks or pick-ups mounted with guns but by nightfall, pockets of Gaddafi loyalists were still resisting from within the city on Libyas central Mediterranean coast. Sirte is one of Gaddafis last, isolated bastions but whether he is there or not is not known.Earlier, in the day, fighters loyal to Libyas new interim government, the National Transitional Council (NTC), exchanged rocket and gunfire with groups of loyalists concealed inside residential areas of the city, which lies 450 km (280 miles) east of Tripoli.Many Gaddafi supporters had fled the city already.
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