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Slideshow 1 of 6. Libyan militias aligned with the defence ministry drive past an empty building in the centre of the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid October 24, 2012. The fighters said they had taken control of the town on Wednesday but there were still some pockets of resistance on the outskirts. Credit: Reuters/Ismail Zitouny By Marie-Louise Gumuchian BANI WALID, Libya | Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:35am EDT BANI WALID, Libya (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Libya's government took control of the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid on Wednesday, commanders said, but pockets of resistance on the outskirts were reported. Thousands have fled bloodshed this month between rival militias in the isolated hilltop town that was one of the last to surrender to rebels who overthrew Muammar Gaddafi last year. The violence in Bani Walid has highlighted continued disorder in the oil-producing North African Arab country. Pro-government fighters shouted "Bani Walid is free!" on Wednesday as dozens of pick-up trucks mounted with weapons filled a roundabout and streets in the centre of the town some 170 km (105 miles) south of the coastal capital Tripoli. Bent on making their mark on a town they say still harbors many followers of the late Gaddafi, pro-government forces fired rocket-propelled guns and anti-aircraft weapons at empty buildings. Heavy gunfire thundered non-stop and smoke billowed over part of the town. Shooting also clattered further off. The fighters cried "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) and "Today Bani Walid is finished", honking their car horns and blasting patriotic music from their trucks. "On this day - October 24 - Bani Walid is free. There are no more Gaddafi militias inside," Fathi Shahoud, a commander of the Libya Shield grouping of militias aligned with the Defense Ministry, told Reuters. "Now we control the city and we will stay to ensure safety." Tarek Nouri Abu-Shabi, a 21-year-old member of the Free Libya militia, said: "The revolutionaries have been in control since yesterday. These are rebels from Misrata, Tripoli and from other places. There are still small pockets of fighting on the outskirts. We found weapons inside the town." Pro-government forces moved in on Bani Walid this month after Omran Shaban, the former rebel fighter who found Gaddafi hiding in a drain pipe in Sirte two months after rebels took Tripoli, died after being in detention there for two months. Forces answering to the defense and interior ministries set out to find those suspected of abducting and torturing Shaban before he was eventually released, and the national congress gave Bani Walid a deadline to hand them over. But the swoop on Bani Walid drove home the Tripoli government's inability to reconcile groups with long-running grievances, as well as its failure to bring many of the militias that deposed Gaddafi fully under its control. TWENTY-TWO DEAD, THOUSANDS DISPLACED According to the Libyan state news agency, the clashes in Bani Walid have killed at least 22 people and injured hundreds. Thousands of families from Bani Walid fled the violence. There were unconfirmed reports of retribution against Bani Walid residents by pro-government forces. "The militias have entered the suburbs with bulldozers and have begun to demolish homes without reason," Abdel-Hamid Saleh, a member of a Bani Walid civil society group, said by phone on Tuesday. "A woman called me yesterday screaming 'They have come for me, they have come for me' in fear. "The city is falling on our heads." Fleeing residents have said that there is no water or electricity inside the city and a shortage of food and medicine. The Bani Walid General Hospital was evacuated earlier this week when, according to residents, it came under a rocket and mortar barrage. "The patients have been moved to hiding places, homes and mosques because they were under fire in the hospital," tribal elder Mohammed al-Shetwai told Reuters. A Reuters team was unable to reach the hospital because of extensive shooting in Bani Walid on Wednesday. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it had previously delivered surgical supplies to treat around 100 patients wounded by shooting inside the city, as well as other urgently needed medical supplies. Fighters, young and old - some dressed in civilian clothes - climbed onto the roof of one building to hoist Libya's tricolor flag and then fired their rifles in the air. Posters of Shabban as well as Misrata historical hero Ramadan al-Swehli hung atop one of central Bani Walid's buildings, next to an empty coffee shop where plastic chairs still stood outside. A main street in the center of the town was empty except for the Libya Shield fighters. 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