Under-pressure medics battling to cope with the increasing bombardment unleashed by Colonel Gaddafi are today understood to have fled hospitals in Ras Lanuf and Brega.
The doctors and nurses who have treated hundreds is not thousands of civilian casualties are reported to have evacuated the buildings amid ferocious attacks by the dictator's forces.
Fighting accelerated on the main front line between the oil port of Ras Lanouf and the city of Bin Jawwad where the rebels appeared to be have established better supply lines bringing heavy weapons like multiple-rocket launcher trucks and small tanks to the battle.
Embattled autocrat Gaddafi again appeared to increase his aerial and ground attacks against a backdrop of possible international intervention in the paralysed country.
Rebels in Sidra were bombarded with shell attacks from war planes but the fighters responded with rocket-propelled grenades.
NATO said it had started round-the-clock surveillance of the air space over Libya, and British Foreign Secretary William Hague said a meeting of EU foreign ministers would discuss how to isolate the regime.
NATO member states will consider their options which include an attack on Libyan air defences as part of a strategy to impose a no-fly zone.
The zone could prove complicated in the politically sensitive region and could risk dragging the West into a protracted conflict in another Middle Eastern country.
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