MISRATA, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi's forces holed up inside the airport in the key western city of Misrata have been shelling a civilian neighborhood around it. Libyan rebels say at least two men died in the morning fighting.
Their bodies were brought to Misrata's Hikma hospital on Friday, as loud booms and the crackle of machine gun reverberated across the city.
The rebels say one — a middle-aged man with a bullet wound to the chest — died as he sat outside his home in the southern neighborhood next to the airport. The other was a younger man with several shrapnel wounds.
The two-month battle for Misrata has killed hundreds and prompted warnings of a humanitarian crisis. The city is increasingly the focus of fighting as the other key front in the rebel-held east settled into a stalemate.
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