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Libya Says NATO Killed 15 Civilians In Air Strike

June 20, 2011

Libyan officials say 15 civilians, including three children, were killed in a NATO attack on a building west of the capital, Tripoli.

The alliance acknowledged its warplanes hit the town of Sorman, but insisted the target was military.

Reporters were shown a destroyed country estate belonging to Khuwildi Hemidi, a member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Center, the inner circle of government.

Reporters were also taken to a hospital, where an AFP correspondent saw nine bodies and body parts.

The Libyan claim of civilian deaths came just hours after NATO acknowledged that a "weapons failure" may have led to civilian casualties in a residential neighborhood of Tripoli.

Reporters were shown the bodies of five of the nine people Libyan officials said were killed in that strike.

compiled from agency reports

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/libya_says_nato_killed_15_in_air_strike/24241160.html

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