{"id":443760,"date":"2011-06-19T04:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/19\/tripoli-nato-strike-kills-five\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T04:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T04:31:51","slug":"tripoli-nato-strike-kills-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/19\/tripoli-nato-strike-kills-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripoli ‘Nato strike kills five’"},"content":{"rendered":"

19 June 2011<\/span> Last updated at<\/span> 00:31 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At least five people have died in a Nato air strike that hit a house in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Libyan government officials say.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Jeremy Bowen saw a three-storey house badly damaged at the scene of the alleged air raid in the city’s Suq Al Juma residential district.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent was later shown five bodies at a Tripoli hospital.<\/p>\n

He says if proved to be a Nato strike, it will raise more questions about the alliance’s mission in Libya.<\/p>\n

There has been no response yet from Nato, but it has acknowledged mistakenly hitting civilian areas in previous bombing raids.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent was taken by Libyan government officials to a Tripoli hospital where he was shown the bodies of a dead woman, a dead man and a dead baby.<\/p>\n

The officials said they were members of a family killed in the alleged Nato air strike.<\/p>\n

Our correspondent was also shown the body of another man and a dead baby.<\/p>\n

He saw two of the bodies earlier at the scene – one being pulled from the rubble and another being placed in an ambulance.<\/p>\n

Seed of hatred<\/strong><\/p>\n

Libyan officials say Sunday’s attack, in one of the city’s poorer neighbourhoods, happened shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n

Scores of men were working alongside the emergency services, pulling at sections of rubble and looking for bodies.<\/p>\n

Locals said an entire family had been killed, though our correspondent was unable to immediately verify this claim.<\/p>\n

The level of damage, he adds, looked like the aftermath of an air strike, with concrete floors blown out on to the street.<\/p>\n

Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said: “Nato is planting the seed of hatred in the hearts of Libyan people for years to come. They won’t allow foreign armies to decide their future.”<\/p>\n

What started as a peaceful uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year-rule four months ago has grown into a civil war.<\/p>\n

The rebels now hold a third of the country in the east and pockets in the west, including Misrata, although Tripoli remains under government control.<\/p>\n

Nato has flown more than 10,000 sorties since operations began, including almost 4,000 strike attacks against government targets across Libya.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Nato said one of its aircraft<\/a> had mistakenly attacked rebel forces in eastern Libya during an air raid on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Nato said it had hit a column of military vehicles near the oil town of Brega, and that the rebels had said there were injuries but no casualties.<\/p>\n

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