Tripoli - Forces North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO kept pounding Tripoli, capital of Libya. On Friday (20 / 5) morning, a number of explosions of NATO air strikes came in the port city.
Approximately at 02.00 local time, a series of explosions heard in Tripoli when the fighter planes flying over Tripoli.
AFP correspondent, one of the journalists who sent the local authority to a bridge which is about one kilometer from the port, could not confirm whether the explosive was military ships or civilian ships.
Previously, the Libyan government spokesman Ibrahim Mussa in a press conference saying, "I have just learned that the Port of Tripoli is now a target of NATO attacks. I say, a ship was hit by NATO air strikes. "
He did not explain in detail about the ship but to reporters saying, "The ship was hit by whatever it is, certainly this is a definite message by NATO to the international maritime companies in order not to send more ships to Libya."
Eyewitnesses told AFP that they heard at least four explosions in the harbor and saw wisps of smoke from the area. "Places of military and civilian is now a target of attacks by aggressors colonialist crusade," he said on Libyan state television.
Tripoli is now facing almost daily attacks by coalition forces that waged from March 19 to prevent the army strongman Libya, Moamer Kadhafi to attack civilians. NATO took over command of operations on 31 March.
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