adminweek after the deposed leader was captured and killed there, a military commander said yesterday.
“There was an enormous explosion and a huge fire.
“More than 100 people were killed and 50 others wounded” in Monday night’s blast, National Transitional Council commander Leith Moha-mmed said.
He said the scene was “a heart wrenching spectacle with dozens of charred bodies”.
The explosion happened as a crowd of people waited near the fuel tank to fill up their cars.
“We are still unable to put out the fire,” said Mohammed, adding that it had been caused by a spark from a nearby electricity generator.
Some of the victims had returned to the town, the last bastion of resistance Col Gaddafi loyalists, which fell on Thursday, to inspect the damage to their properties, the NTC commander added.
No building was spared in the weeks of fierce combat backed by daily NATO air strikes.
The bombings reduced the Mediterranean city to rubble, a ghost town filled with the stench of death, where bodies still littered the streets on Monday. – AFP.
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