Tunis (ANTARA News/Reuters) - Pro-Gaddafi forces defeated insurgents in the coastal town of Zuwarah on Monday, retaking one of the last rebel-held towns in western Libya, a resident said.

"Zuwarah is in their hands now," Tarek Abdallah said. "They control it and there is no sign of the rebels. They are now in the centre -- the army and the tanks."

"The fighting stopped and they are here," he told Reuters by telephone. "We don`t know what will happen to us and we fear they might commit crimes. We hope and pray to God they don`t." (*)

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