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Insurgents Increase Checks in Tripoli, Escalate Attacks on Sirte
Tripoli, Oct 16 (Prensa Latina) Libyan insurgents multiplied checkpoints and blockades of streets in this capital on Sunday after clashes on Friday, while in Sirte attacks escalated after forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi forced the insurgents to withdraw.
Soldiers under the command of the National Transitional Council (NTC) placed more barriers in the streets of Tripoli and searched vehicles and houses, especially in the Abu Salim neighbourhood, the scene of Friday clashes.
A group of Gaddafi's followers stormed that neighbourhood on Friday with weapons and Libyan flags, and were reprimanded by residents when they chanted slogans of support for their leader.
The incidents, involving hundreds of pro-Qaddafi supporters and over 200 men of the NTC, resulted in the deaths of two Gaddafi followers and a CNT militant, apart from nine wounded, according to opposition sources in a press conference on Saturday.
Following the fiercest clashes in this capital since it was taken by the rebels, heavily armed trucks patrol the streets of Abu Salim while soldiers search homes and businesses.
On Sunday, rebel troops stepped up attacks with tanks, rocket launchers and mortars at positions of Gaddafi's loyalists in an area of Sirte from which insurgents withdrew on Saturday due to the firepower of the pro-government resistance.
According to spokespersons for the insurgency, its troops were forced to withdraw two kilometers to the police station of the city on the Mediterranean coast that they had taken a few days ago, while their enemies were strengthened in the neighbourhoods of Dollar and Number Two.
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