Reply #3: AFP: Hundreds fleeing Libyan rebel city of Benghazi [View All]

[Turborama]

Agence France-Presse
First Posted 18:11:00 03/19/2011

BENGHAZI—Hundreds of people fled eastward from Libya's second city of Benghazi Saturday, as fighting raged around the rebel-held stronghold between insurgents and government forces, an AFP correspondent said.

Very heavy traffic clogged the road but rebel checkpoints were still manned and fighters screamed defiance against Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, as a large plume of smoke was seen rising from the city behind them.

A man with a green flag standing in the road shouted, "Gadhafi will die, Gadhafi will die."

Opposition media outlets said Benghazi was coming under attack from the west, as foreign countries prepared military action to enforce a United Nations Security Council resolution directed at Gadhafi.

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