Six powerful explosions Tuesday resounded near the Tripoli residence of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, targetted a day earlier by intensive NATO air strikes, an AFP journalist said.
Jet fighters could be heard above before three deafening explosions rocked the area of Kadhafi's Bab Al-Aziziya residence compound around 11:00 pm (2100 GMT), followed by three others two minutes later.
The zone came under heavy bombardment overnight Monday lasting more than half an hour, leaving three dead and 150 wounded, according to the Kadhafi regime.
NATO strikes Kadhafi regime vehicle storage in Tripoli
Brussels (AFP) May 24, 2011 –
NATO said Tuesday that air strikes overnight had hit a military vehicle storage facility in Tripoli, which Moamer Kadhafi's regime in turn claimed hit a barracks causing three deaths.
"Overnight a regime vehicle storage facility adjacent to the Bab Al Aziziyah complex in Tripoli was struck by NATO aircraft using a number of precision guided weapons," said the NATO operation's commander Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard in a statement.
"This facility is known to have been active during the initial regime suppression of the population in February 2011 and has remained so ever since; resupplying the regime forces that have been conducting attacks against innocent civilians."
Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli that NATO had carried out "between 12 and 18 raids on a barracks of the people's guard", volunteer units who back up the army.
"According to the information we have there are three dead and 150 wounded," he told journalists on a bus taking them to a hospital shortly after the strikes.
"The barracks was empty. Most of the victims were civilians living nearby," the spokesman added.
An AFP journalist said the raids lasting more than half an hour began at around 1:00 am (2300 GMT Monday) when powerful blasts were heard in the sector around Kadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya residence.
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