Libyans flee Sirte amid Red Cross medical warning

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Libyans fleeing Sirte queue at a checkpoint set up by National Transitional… Map locating city of Sirte where fighters for the country’s interim rulers … National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters battle loyalist forces in Sirt… Streams of civilians fled Moamer Kadhafi’s besieged home town of Sirte on Sunday as the international Red Cross warned of a medical emergency and the battle for the fugitive strongman’s bastion raged. An AFP reporter at a mosque field hospital west of the city said hundreds of Sirte residents were fleeing in packed vehicles, with some people even sitting on top of possessions piled high in the rear of pick-ups. “There are so many rockets now. Yesterday there…

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Libyans flee Sirte amid Red Cross medical warning

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