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Nick Hopkins / June 2011 18.21 BST / Guardian.
Pictures – shown to the media on a guided tour by the Libyan government – of a residential neighbourhood in Tripoli, where civilians were reported to have died during a Nato raid. Photograph: Mohamed Messara / EPA.
Libyan government claims Nato missile struck house in residential Tripoli, killing civilians, including two children.
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.
If confirmed, the attack would be the biggest blunder by coalition forces during the four-month campaign, and a PR gift for Muammar Gaddafi at a time when Nato has been trying to increase the tempo of military operations against the Libyan leader.
However, Nato officials were by no means sure it had been responsible for the alleged bombing in the Souk al-Juma district of the Libyan capital – the area was not being specifically targeted and the coalition has nobody on the ground to verify what the Gaddafi regime has been saying.
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