Libya air raid 'civilians killed'

1. April 2011 last updated at 14: 32 GMT the BBC's Ben Brown: "A doctor told us seven civilians killed" seven civilians died and a coalition 25 were air strikes on a pro-Gaddafi convoy in East Libya hurt, it has a doctor told the BBC.

Dr. Suleiman Refardi, said el Argobe RAID in the village of Zawia Wednesday, 15 km (9 miles) of Brega occurred.

The strike hit a truck with ammunition, and the resulting explosion destroyed two close nearby houses.

The dead were in the age of 12 to 20, said Dr. Refardi. NATO says that it be investigated the claim.

The news comes as opposition leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil said the rebels would agree to a truce if Col Muammar Gaddafi's troops withdraw from cities.

"We agree on a cease-fire on the condition that our brothers in the Western cities have the freedom of expression and also, that the forces that have besieged the cities stand out," he told a press conference in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

But he said, would the rebels not to demand back down, which must go Col Gaddafi.

'No rage'

Dr. Refardi told the BBC that the Libyan Government convoy had included tanks, artillery and trucks with ammunition.

A direct hit on an ammunition truck and trailer on a street in Zawia el Argobe a hail of shrapnel into nearby homes sent, he said.

Four of the dead were female, including three children from the same family, between 12 and 16 years, BBC reported Ben Brown of Brega.

The NATO led air strikes targeting Libyan Government tanks and ammunition supply convoys

Three boys aged between 14 and 20 years were also killed.

He said Dr. Refardi had spoken, the family of the girl, who had been slain and "was it not anger" with the coalition forces.

"When Ajdabiya had entered these tanks it would have been a massacre," he said.

"they [the Libyan people] are expecting more than this because they know the Gaddafi forces use civilians as a shield."

NATO officials told BBC that they made inquiries "down our operations chain all information to find out if indeed in the page operation that would support this claim".

Meanwhile, the BBC's Wyre Davies in Ajdabiya says rebels there on press around the town of Brega oil to the front.

Many enthusiastic if disorganized, he drive insurgents mounted in pickup trucks with heavy machine guns on the back, reported.

The BBC's Nick Springate in Brega says the flagging morale rebel fighters - usually ill-equipped and untrained - apparently well trained soldiers in all has a number of well armed, military uniform have been increased. It is not clear, where they have been our correspondent adds.

Gen Younis Abdel-Fatah, the former Libyan Minister of the Interior, which the rebels, übergelaufen also rebels outside Brega has.

Earlier, the BBC learned that a Libyan Government Envoy, Mohammed Ismail, had been in London in the last few days for talks with the authorities of the United Kingdom.

The UK Foreign Office says that in all your contacts with Libyan officials, it is clear, which made "Gaddafi has to go".

News of the visit was to the UK after former Foreign Minister of Libyan Moussa Koussa flew and said, was that resigned his post.

Since then, there were other unconfirmed reports that he converted more older Libyans are.

Al-Jazeera TV, said the Minister of intelligence, Deputy Foreign Minister and General Congress speaker waited for flights in Tunisia.

Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has denied reports that he left to Libya.

He told the BBC today radio programme: "I'm in my Office in Tripoli working." "I try my best, try to keep this oil industry as an industry, try the damage as low as possible to keep, which is done with the installation, to the safety of personnel and the industry tried to secure the personal [and] to prevent the looting."

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