Libyan regime said NATO has launched a deadly airstrike against a clinic in Zliten east of Tripoli, killing seven people.

Libyan regime said NATO has launched a deadly airstrike against a clinic in Zliten east of Tripoli, killing seven people.

A local official accompanied foreign journalists on a guided media tour of the western town on Tuesday, where they saw a completely destroyed building with a crescent sign at its entrance and the ground littered with surgical gloves, oxygen bottles, pharmaceuticals and stretchers, AFP news agency reported.

AFP correspondent said the journalists saw no victims in the building surrounding, quoting the local as saying that NATO has carried the raid late on Monday.
In other parts of Zliten the reporters were shown three damaged food storage buildings and another still on fire, which the government minders also blamed on NATO.

NATO DENIES IT HAS KILLED CIVILIANS
For its part, NATO official on Tuesday confirmed targets had been struck near Zliten but said it had "no evidence" that any were civilian facilities, claiming the alliance paid “as always great care to minimize the risk of civilian casualties”.

"NATO struck a number of targets near Zliten (on Monday) that were military in nature. These targets were a command and control node and a vehicle storage facility that contained military vehicles," the official told AFP.

"We understand that the (embattled leader Muammar) Gaddafi regime organized a press tour to the area, during which these allegations were made; however, we have no evidence suggesting that these allegations are founded."

The official said that as is the case with all NATO strikes "a thorough damage assessment is conducted afterwards."