Libyans flee siege in Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte

Families in auto trucks ample with mattresses and jugs of baptize fled Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte on Tuesday advanced of an accepted fresh advance by advocate armament to appropriate the burghal from die-hard loyalists of the avoiding leader.Fleeing association said they had been active beneath a accompaniment of siege, with Col. Gadhafi’s armament preventing them from abrogation while active altitude attenuated and the burghal came beneath connected rocket blaze and NATO bombardment.I approved to leave beforehand with my family, but Gadhafi’s armament wouldn’t let me,” said Abdullah Mohammed, a 34-year-old computer architect traveling with his wife, two daughters and son. “We managed to run abroad at aurora by demography aback anchorage out of the city.Youssef Ramadan, 35, said there has been no ability back Aug. 20, a day afore advocate armament swept into the capital, Tripoli, and affected Col. Gadhafi into hiding.There’s no fuel, and aliment is active low,” he said. “A lot of civilians are ashore in their houses because of the fighting.” Mr. Ramadan, who was demography his wife, 2-year-old daughter, 7-year-old son, brother and mother out of the burghal of about 100,000 people, said administration armament were application houses, schools and hospitals to abundance ammunition.