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Libya presents home it says hit by Western missile

Pointing at twisted metal scattered around his garden, Rajab Mohammed said a missile fired by a Western warplane came down from the sky overnight and hit his family compound on the edge of the Libyan capital.
Libya presented the man to foreign journalists on Friday as proof that Western air raids were hitting civilian areas. But the evidence on the ground seemed less straightforward, even on this tightly controlled government visit to Mohammed’s house.
Western coalition forces flatly deny hitting civilian areas.
“I was sitting inside the house, my children were studying for an exam, then closer to 9 p.m. we heard a strange noise and I asked my children to hide,” said Mohammed, standing outside his one-storey family house. “Then there was a lot of smoke.”
Government escorts said the compound, in the eastern suburb of Tajoura, was hit by a Western missile late on Thursday.
Reporters were originally told no one was hurt in the attack when they arrived at the scene. Then one neighbour said a boy had been hurt. Later, Mohammed said that his 18-year-old daughter had been wounded in the back and taken to hospital.
Asked if she had been wounded by shrapnel, he said: “Maybe.”
Friday’s visit to his house was the first time since the start of Western air raids that officials took reporters to a civilian site they said was hit by a coalition attack. Reporters in Tripoli are not allowed to go anywhere without minders.
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