Anti-Gaddafi protests in Tripoli streets: residents

Reuters, ALGIERS, Sat Aug 20, 2011

A building Libyan officials described as a civil engineering office lies

flattened  after being bombed overnight by NATO in Tripoli,
August 20, 2011. (Credit: Reuters/Paul Hackett)

(Reuters) - Crowds of opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were in the streets of the capital Tripoli late on Saturday and gunfire could be heard from multiple locations, two residents told Reuters.

Mobile telephone subscribers received a text message from the government urging them to "go out in the squares and streets to eliminate the armed agents," according to one resident who received the message on his phone.

(Writing by Christian Lowe; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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