Libya rebels claim control of key refinery - Africa - Al Jazeera English

Libya rebels claim control of key refinery - Africa - Al Jazeera English: Libya's opposition fighters claim to have taken control of a strategic oil refinery in the western town of Az Zawiyah and also to have blocked the main highway north to the capital, Tripoli.

"The battle [for the refinery] lasted for two days but the main battle was last night. We took control last night," Saleh Omran, a rebel fighter from Az Zawiyah told the Reuters news agency on Thursday from inside the refinery complex.

He said rebels fighters forced the troops of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to flee the sea-side refinery, a major source of fuel for the loyalist troops in Tripoli

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