Washington: The Pentagon said a U.S. drone launched the first strike against government targets in Libya on Saturday.
The airstrike took place in early afternoon local time, the Pentagon said without notifying the exact targets of the strike.
The raid came less than two days after US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that President Barack Obama had approved the use of armed Predator drones in the military mission in Libya, and that the unmanned aircraft could provide unique capabilities to the Nato forces operating in Libya.
Meanwhile, heavy fighting between Moammar Gadhafi’s loyal forces and rebels left at least 10 people killed in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata on Saturday.
“We have received 10 dead and 50 wounded, which is usually the number for a full day,” a doctor at the main Hikma hospital in the western port city told an international news agency.
“We’re overwhelmed, overwhelmed. We lack everything: personnel, equipment and medicines,” said Doctor Khalid Abu Salra.
Ambulances pulled up outside the hospital every three or four minutes, and they also brought in wounded soldiers loyal to the regime of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, as paramedics frantically wiped blood off stretchers.
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