Reply #58: Pro-regime troops seen wearing gas masks in Misrata [View All]

Pro-Gaddaffi forces have been seen roaming the streets of Misurata wearing gas masks, contacts in Libya's besieged city have reported to timesofmalta.com .

Sources at the hospital confirmed that pro regime troops were wearing gas masks. An independent source said there were reports that thousands of gas masks had been distributed to troops yesterday.

The news comes in the wake of an announcement by the Gaddafi regime that a NATO air strike last night had killed Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son, 29-year-old Saif al-Arab and three young grandchildren.

Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least three missiles. The roof had completely caved in at places, leaving mangled rods of steel hanging down among splintered chunks of concrete.