Rebels: Gaddafi fighters shell western mountains
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces intensified their campaign to take strategic heights in a western mountain range and targeted a road that many people have used to flee the fighting in Libya, forcing the temporary closure of a border crossing to Tunisia.
Much of the fighting centered around the town of Yafrin, and residents and rebel fighters said Wednesday that Gaddafi forces were using Grad missiles and rockets in their nearly monthlong siege. Residents, trapped in their homes, were cut off from food and medical supplies, they said. In nearby Zintan, however, rebels repelled an advance by Gaddafi's forces, killing eight and taking one prisoner, a local activist said.(AP)
