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Belfast TelegraphA UK-funded aid ship has been caught in Misrata harbour during a bombing raid by Muammar Gaddafi's forces that is believed to have killed four people.
The Red Star One docked at the besieged Libyan port to deliver 180 tons of humanitarian supplies and evacuate 1,000 stranded migrant workers and injured civilians.
The Libyan Red Crescent said the attack killed four migrants - a woman, a man and two children who were in a camp nearby.
The ship, operated by the International Organisation for Migration, had spent three nights outside Misrata waiting to enter because the sea approaches have been mined.
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Libyan govt forces shell port as aid ship docksBy BEN HUBBARD Associated Press
May 4, 2011, 11:29AM EST
MISRATA, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled the port area of this besieged rebel city on Wednesday, killing a woman, a man and two children as an international aid ship was docked, a medical official said.
The ferry, chartered to evacuate nearly 1,000 migrant workers, had spent three nights outside Misrata waiting to come in. Last week, Gadhafi's forces were caught mining the harbor entrance, and the Red Star One was guided into the port by tug boat Wednesday to avoid mines.
The four people killed in the attack had been in a nearby camp for stranded migrant workers, most of them African, said Mahdi Bensasi of the Libyan Red Crescent.
Saka Yossie, 27, a worker from Ghana, said he was in the camp when Grad rockets hit. "We were just sitting there when the bombs came down," he said. "They died right in front of us."
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