Monday, June 20, 2011

Children killed in Libya by NATO

Pictures taken on a guided government air strike show damage reportedly caused by Nato air strikes. Photograph: Ismail Zetouni/Reuters  NATO has admitted it was responsible for an air strike that killed civilians in Tripoli over the weekend.  Two children are among the dead.

Pictures – shown to the media on a guided tour by the Libyan government – of a residential neighbourhood in Tripoli, where civilians died during a Nato bombing raid. Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA  Nato is urgently reviewing the details of its weekend bombing missions after the Libyan government claimed one of its missiles had struck a house in a residential area of Tripoli, killing a number of civilians, including two children. – from The Guardian  Headline:  Libya: Nato admits civilian deaths in Tripoli air raid

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