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Sirte looters 'left nothing'

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Nearly two months after the fall of Tripoli, loyalist fighters are still holding out in Colonel Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, where fighting is concentrated on one neighbourhood, known as District number Two.

The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports on how the rest of Sirte, once rich and prosperous, has been turned into a ghost town.


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