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Email Print Related News Tunisia warns Libya over shelling of border town Sat, May 7 2011 Gaddafi forces attack remote oil town: rebels Sat, May 7 2011 Analysis & Opinion Will there be a bin Laden peace dividend? Reliving the Cold War’s tensest moment Related Topics World » Libya » Related Video Funeral in Benghazi Sat, May 7 2011 1 / 16 EDITOR'S NOTE: Credit: Reuters IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS VIDEO WAS TAKEN. A fire-fighter attempts to put out a blaze at fuel storage tanks in Misrata in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website May 6, 2011. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV By Lin Noueihed TRIPOLI | Sat May 7, 2011 8:14pm EDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan government forces destroyed four fuel storage tanks and set several others ablaze in rebel-held Misrata, dealing a blow to the port city's ability to withstand a government siege, rebels said on Saturday. The attack on the western city came as artillery rounds fired by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fell in Tunisia in an escalation of fighting near the border with rebels trying to end Gaddafi's rule of more than four decades. Misrata, the last remaining city in the west under rebel control, has been under siege for more than two months and has witnessed some of the war's fiercest fighting. Rebels gave varying accounts of the bombardment but said it hit fuel used for export as well as domestic consumption. "Four (fuel) tanks were totally destroyed and a huge fire erupted which spread now to the other four. We cannot extinguish it because we do not have the right tools," rebel spokesman Ahmed Hassan told Reuters. "Now the city will face a major problem. Those were the only sources of fuel for the city. These tanks could have kept the city for three months with enough fuel," he said by telephone. Video of the incident posted on YouTube by Libyan students in Misrata showed firefighters turning water hoses on a raging fire in a vain attempt to extinguish it. Government forces last month flew at least one helicopter reconnaissance mission over Misrata, according to rebels. NATO coalition aircraft have been bombing Libyan government military targets and enforcing a no-fly zone under a U.N. resolution. Western and Arab countries this week agreed to provide rebels with millions of dollars in non-military aid to help them keep services and the economy running. Rebels have long been demanding more heavy weapons to take on the Libyan leader's better-armed and trained forces. The head of the rebel forces in eastern Libya retracted an assertion by a rebel spokesman that Italy had agreed to supply them with weapons to help in their fight to oust Gaddafi. "We have not received any weapons, not from Italy nor from any other country," Abdel Fattah Younes told al Jazeera television. "Maybe one of the brothers failed to express himself properly ... we apologize to Italy on behalf of the brothers in the National Council." A spokesman for the rebels' Transitional National Council had told a news conference in Benghazi earlier in the day that weapons would be provided to the insurgents soon. In Rome, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said no such agreement had been reached. Italy has backed the rebels, formally recognizing the transitional council as the only legitimate representatives of the country, but it is unlikely it would go further than other countries in the anti-Gaddafi coalition. BORDER FIGHTING Fighting has intensified in Libya's Western Mountains region as Gaddafi loyalists and rebels backed by NATO bombing reached stalemate on other fronts in the civil war. Government forces surrounding rebel-held Zintan fired 300 rockets into the town on Saturday, rebel spokesman Abdulrahman al-Zintani said. He gave no details of casualties in Zintan, which is largely empty of civilians. "NATO aircraft can be heard but there have been no air strikes," al-Zintani told Reuters. The Tunisian town of Dehiba has been hit repeatedly by stray shells in recent weeks, and on Saturday Tunisia condemned the "extremely dangerous" shelling and said it would take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty. The Libyan government denied targeting Tunisian soil deliberately. "We said this (shelling) was an error and we have apologized that this took place and have asked the military forces to ensure this doesn't happen again," Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi told a news conference in Tripoli. The battle is over the Dehiba-Wazzin border crossing, whose control gives the rebels a road from the outside world into strongholds in the Western Mountains region. Gaddafi's forces control a far bigger crossing to the north. On Saturday Dehiba's schools were evacuated and residents scurried for safety as nearly 100 mortars and missiles fell. The crackle of small arms fire and larger weapons could be heard about 4 km inside Libya, a Reuters witness on the border said. "We are very afraid. The missiles are falling right around us, we don't know what to do," said Tunisian Mohammed Naguez, a resident of Dehiba. "Our children are afraid. The Tunisian authorities have to stop this." Most Western Mountains residents belong to the Berber ethnic group and are distinct from other Libyans. They rose up two months ago and say towns like Zintan and Yafran, often bombarded by Gaddafi's forces, are short of food, water and medicine. The civil war over Gaddafi's rule has split the oil-producing desert state into a government-held western area round the capital Tripoli and an eastern region held by ill-disciplined but dedicated rebel forces. The revolt is the bloodiest yet against long-entrenched rulers across the Middle East and North Africa, which saw the overthrow of the veteran presidents of Tunisia and Egypt. (Reporting by Joseph Nasr in Berlin, Matt Robinson and Tarek Amara in Dehiba and Mariam Karouny in Beirut; Writing by Matthew Bigg and Sonya Hepinstall; editing by Tim Pearce) World Libya Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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