Fighters belonging to Libya's ruling National Transitional Council claim they have captured nearly all of Bani Walid, one of two last remaining strongholds of the country's deposed leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
NTC military commanders said on Monday that they were encountering pockets of resistance in the town, located about 170km southeast of Tripoli. But they said they had claimed about 95 per cent of it.
Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from inside Bani Walid, has said that "this is an almost complete liberation of the town".
