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Libya: RAF airstrikes sink boat filled with Gaddafi troops after refinery battle
The RAF sank a boat filled with Libyan troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi in the final act of a fierce battle with rebel soldiers for the country’s last functioning oil refinery.
The intervention came at the culmination of a firefight that ended Col Gaddafi’s control of the Zawiyah facility, which lies just 30 miles west of the Libyan capital Tripoli.
Pro-Gaddafi forces had taken to the sea by boat after fighting a desperate rearguard battle for the refinery, the regime’s last source of fuel for its besieged capital.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said they had commandeered a tug in an effort to regroup after a Nato strike destroyed their armed vehicles in the refinery.
“Although a challenging target, small and under way at sea, a direct hit was scored with a laser-guided Paveway bomb which sank the vessel,” Major Gen Nick Pope said.
The RAF delivered the final blow just as two senior officers boarded the ship from an inflatable........