anti-Gaddafi forces against the fortress in the Gulf of Sirte for the first time on Monday it has heavy fighting in the Libyan Sirte, where armed supporters of the transitional authorities strong resistance Gaddafi loyalists are exposed.A BBC correspondent on the outskirts of the city says that the two sides have Exchange was machine gun fire, rockets and artillery shells.
Many thousands of civilians remain in Sirte, East of the capital Tripoli.
Aid agencies expressed concern about the conditions facing you.
Sirte is still one of the last strongholds of supporters of the beleaguered Colonel with Bani Walid 250 km (155 miles) to the West which hold only other big city.
SniperHundreds of National Transitional Council (NTC) troops are in Sirte, but snipers they kept a step forward in the center of the city, Reuters news agency reported.
For a second day, forces at a roundabout anti-Gaddafi were 2 km (1.5 km) from the city centre, it fixed said.
"Forces have put a lot of snipers around the roundabout to Gaddafi and it is not easy for us to promote us, until we get rid of the snipers," said Ahmed Saleh, a NTC fighter, told of Reuters.
The Agency said explosions, artillery rounds and exchanges of small arms fire heard and NATO aircraft were flying overhead.
There were also clashes in the port.
Humanitarian agencies warn that Walid asked civilians in Sirte and Bani have to help, say, medical supplies and food are scarce.
As soon as the fighting under way and both sides create front lines will, says it is a good indicator whether Sirte will fall quickly or whether it urban will sink warfare into dangerous which kill and injure many civilians and soldiers, the BBC's Alastair Leithead in the city.
The firepower and determination of the new Government Libyan army be Col Gaddafi he says hometown, but with propaganda, which say that the rebels want revenge, defence Sirte to fight until death, who think they have nothing to lose.
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