Street fighting rocks Sirte as Clinton visits Tripoli

Street fighting rocks Sirte as Clinton visits Tripoli
Fierce street fighting erupted in Muammar Gaddafi's sole remaining bastion of Sirte on Tuesday, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a surprise visit to Tripoli.

National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters suffered at least 11 dead and 95 wounded, as Sirte's streets reverberated with the sound of heavy gunfire, rockets and mortars, medics at the two field hospitals on either side of Sirte told AFP.
Fighters were running in their hundreds through the streets of the last two neighbourhoods still in the hands of the loyalists, the Dollar and Number Two, an AFP correspondent reported.