
Pro-government forces open fire at militias loyal to Libyan former leader Muammar Gaddafi in Bani Walid, some 185 km to southeast Tripoli, Libya, Oct. 23, 2012. Hundreds of Libyan families and foreign workers fled from Bani Walid, one of the last bastions of Muammar Gaddafi's regime and scene of deadly clashes. (Xinhua/Hamza Turkia)