SIRTE: Families of former Libyan regime officials streamed out of Sirte on Monday, including the mother and brother of Moamer Qadhafi's spokesman Mussa Ibrahim, an NTC field commander said.
"These are families of regime officials; there is Mussa Ibrahim's mother and brother among them," said Wessam bin Hamaidi gesturing at seven cars loaded with men, women and children fleeing a disputed pocket of Qadhafi's hometown.
A throng of some 150 National Transitional Council fighters formed around the vehicles in a chaotic scene before the families were whisked off, an AFP reporter at the scene said.
Hamaidi, in charge of military operations in Sirte's eastern front, said the passengers included other "wanted" people but "no big fish," adding there were fighters mixed in with the fleeing civilians.
Minutees later, NTC fighters firing machineguns and mortar mounted an offensive in Dollar and Number 2 neighbourhoods where diehard Qadhafi loyalists are holed up and from where the families had fled, the AFP reporter said.
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