Loyalists of Muammer Gaddafi were keeping up their dogged resistance in two parts of the fugitive strongman’s hometown Sirte on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported.
Rocket fire, and machinegun and small arms exchanges were heard from the Dollar neighbourhood, facing the Mediterranean in the northwest of the coastal city, and in the Number Two residential neighbourhood.
“The fighting has narrowed down to these two neighbourhoods,” Free Libya Brigade field commander Yahya al-Moghasabi told AFP.
“We believe it will take another three days to capture them,” he added.
“We are not going very aggressively into these neighbourhoods because there are still families inside them.”
