TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Western warplanes hit Libya for a fifth night, but have so far failed to stop Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks shelling rebel-held towns or dislodge his armour from a strategic junction in the east.
Gaddafi’s tanks rolled back into Misratah under the cover of darkness and began shelling the area near the main hospital, residents and rebels said, resuming their attack after their guns were silenced in daylight hours by Western airstrikes.
Government snipers in the city, Libya’s third largest, were undeterred by the bombing raids though and had carried on firing indiscriminately
