NATO air raids on Tripoli-Libya - Many people, including a woman, were killed on Friday in an air raid by NATO on the residential district of Al-Aqwakh in Tripoli.

The air strike also hit a drug warehouse, a private hospital for heart treatment, as well as a mosque, Libyan government spokesperson Moussa Ibrahim said.

He said in a press conference in Tripoli that the raid had caused huge panic among the inhabitants of the area.

Ibrahim, director of the Libyan foreign media office, added that NATO had also bombarded a local radio station in the city of Zaouia, 40 km west of Tripoli, a school and a private hospital.

He accused NATO of sowing seeds of disorder by paving the way for terrorist armed gangs.

The Libyan official also denied that Libyan rebels had taken the city of Zliten, 160 km east of Tripoli, saying the city was still under control of loyalist forces.

Pana 20/08/2011