The area controlled by Muammar Gaddafi of Libya is shrinking.
The capital, Tripoli, is heavily quarded by Pro-Gaddafi forces, With the heavy artillary and tanks deployed in the suburbs.
Most of the oil firm in Libya have suspended the production. Due to this suspention oil prices have touched their highest level. There is a great shortage of oil in the country. Prices of oil in the international market is also effected due to these circumstances.
Thousands of foreigners have flee out from the Libya and thousands of those who are trying to left through Ports, airports, and overland. Libya has become a highly unsafe for the foreigners. The US, China and many other countries have sent in Planes and ships to help the people flee.
There are no police or army left in Zuara, a town 120km west of the capital Tripole. Zuara is the latest area to fall to the Oposition.
British oil worker Bryan Richards was evacuated to Warsaw on what he was told was the Polish presidential plane.
He described Tripoli airport as "mayhem. No sanitation. Nothing to eat. People have been there for days".
He told the BBC: "We've come in on Tuesday from the desert. And we walked in to the terminal and couldn't believe what we could see. We couldn't see the end of the terminal for people."
The BBC's Jim Muir, at Libya's western border with Tunisia, says most of the 3,000 to 4,000 people who crossed out of Libya on Wednesday were Tunisian or Egyptian migrant workers, not Libyans.
He says that Libyan border guards have been seizing cameras and mobile phones to prevent images getting out of the country.
Germany has sent three warships with 600 soldiers on board to the sea area between Malta and Libya, reports the German magazine Spiegel. About 160 German nationals are still in Libya, Spiegel says.
Oil prices have continued to climb.
Brent crude hit $119.79 (£74.08) a barrel in early Thursday trade, before falling back to $116.80. Oil firms - including Total, Repsol, OMV and Wintershall - have been suspending all or part of their production in Libya this week.
Source: BBC News
The capital, Tripoli, is heavily quarded by Pro-Gaddafi forces, With the heavy artillary and tanks deployed in the suburbs.Most of the oil firm in Libya have suspended the production. Due to this suspention oil prices have touched their highest level. There is a great shortage of oil in the country. Prices of oil in the international market is also effected due to these circumstances.
Thousands of foreigners have flee out from the Libya and thousands of those who are trying to left through Ports, airports, and overland. Libya has become a highly unsafe for the foreigners. The US, China and many other countries have sent in Planes and ships to help the people flee.
There are no police or army left in Zuara, a town 120km west of the capital Tripole. Zuara is the latest area to fall to the Oposition.
British oil worker Bryan Richards was evacuated to Warsaw on what he was told was the Polish presidential plane.
He described Tripoli airport as "mayhem. No sanitation. Nothing to eat. People have been there for days".
He told the BBC: "We've come in on Tuesday from the desert. And we walked in to the terminal and couldn't believe what we could see. We couldn't see the end of the terminal for people."
The BBC's Jim Muir, at Libya's western border with Tunisia, says most of the 3,000 to 4,000 people who crossed out of Libya on Wednesday were Tunisian or Egyptian migrant workers, not Libyans.
He says that Libyan border guards have been seizing cameras and mobile phones to prevent images getting out of the country.
Germany has sent three warships with 600 soldiers on board to the sea area between Malta and Libya, reports the German magazine Spiegel. About 160 German nationals are still in Libya, Spiegel says.
Oil prices have continued to climb.
Brent crude hit $119.79 (£74.08) a barrel in early Thursday trade, before falling back to $116.80. Oil firms - including Total, Repsol, OMV and Wintershall - have been suspending all or part of their production in Libya this week.
Source: BBC News
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