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| Libya: Nato 'killed 15 civilians' in Sorman air strike | Libya: Nato 'killed 15 civilians' in Sorman air strike |
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| Libyan officials say 15 civilians - including three children - were killed in a Nato attack on a building west of the capital, Tripoli. | Libyan officials say 15 civilians - including three children - were killed in a Nato attack on a building west of the capital, Tripoli. |
| A BBC correspondent taken by the Libyan government to see a compound in the suburb of Sorman says the building has been pulverised. | A BBC correspondent taken by the Libyan government to see a compound in the suburb of Sorman says the building has been pulverised. |
| Nato says it is looking into the Libyan allegations. | Nato says it is looking into the Libyan allegations. |
| On Sunday, Nato said a weapons failure may have led to civilian casualties in an earlier air strike on Tripoli. | |
| BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen was taken to see the remains of the country estate of Khweildy al-Hamidy, a member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Centre, the inner circle of government. | |
| Libyan officials told him that eight rockets slammed into the place at about 0400 or 0500 on Monday morning (0200 or 0300 GMT). | |
| There are shell holes and craters in the houses in the compound, our editor says, after what was a very comprehensive attack. | |
| The Libyans say that in the attack, 15 people were killed, among them the two grandchildren of Khweildy al-Hamidy - a six-year-old and a boy who was either three or four - as well their mother who, we're being told, was pregnant. Not long after I arrived here, they brought out the remains of the boy. | |
| This is Nato striking at the very heart of the Libyan establishment, sending a clear signal after what happened in Tripoli [on Sunday] when civilians were killed. It is sending a clear signal that their campaign continues. | |
| But I think there will be questions asked once more by critics of Nato, about whether the alliance is acting within the terms of its mandate. Its mandate, of course, is to protect civilians. Here once again, though, civilians have been killed. | |
| On Sunday, Nato admitted "a weapons systems failure" may have led to civilian casualties in an air strike that morning on Tripoli. | |
| The alliance said the intended target was a missile site, but "it appears that one weapon" did not hit it. | |
| The Libyan government earlier said Nato had bombed a residential area, killing nine civilians, including two babies. | |
| Meanwhile, rebel leaders said their administration had run out of money as donors' pledges had not materialised. | |
| They told a news conference in the eastern city of Benghazi that they were still waiting for funds that should have been deposited by last week. | |
| Nato's mission - to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya to protect civilians using "all necessary measures" short of a ground invasion - began in March in response to Col Muammar Gaddafi's violent response to a popular uprising. | |
| The intervention was mandated by the UN, and led by France, Britain and the US until the end of March, when Nato took over. | |
| Having initially been given 90 days - which would have run out on 27 June - the mission has been extended for a further 90 days. |