Rebels' council says 10,000 killed in Libya

An estimated 10,000 people have been killed in Libya in recent weeks, said a spokesman of the rebels' Interim Transitional National Council (ITNC) on Friday according to dpa.About 2,000 people died in the capital, Tripoli, and Misurata, while 1,500 died in Zawiya, spokesman Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga said from the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the east. 'We will continue our revolution for one month, two months, if necessary, for one year,' he said.
The International Committee for the Red Cross said it will send a team to the western city of Misurata by boat to investigate claims that snipers targeted children there. The high death toll estimated by the opposition's political council comes as clashes continued in western Libya between Gaddafi's forces and rebels for Misurata, the country's third-largest city and a key battleground en route to Tripoli.