Muammar Gaddafi’s forces are clashing with rebels and Tunisian troops in Dehiba, a Tunisian border town, after seizing a strategically important Libyan-Tunisian border crossing.
The border crossing currently flies the pro-Gaddafi flag, but fight over the strategic checkpoint has raged on overnight and continues to remain heated.
Intense shooting is taking place in central Dehiba on Friday with one boy shot in the foot and a woman killed both by pro-Gaddafi forces’ shelling and gunfire, according to uncorroborated witness accounts.
Tunisian forces are trying to stop further advancement by Gaddafi forces, who have crossed into Tunisia to target rebels and their families in Dehiba, Anita McNaught, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reporting from the Tunisian side of the border area, said.