The colonel and four lieutenant colonels as well as four rank-and-file soldiers arrived by boat on Sunday, the report said.
In Rome on Monday, five generals, two colonels and a major announced they had defected from Kadhafi`s forces, calling on other officers to follow their example.
Abdel Rahman Shalgham, a former foreign minister who was Tripoli`s UN representative before switching sides, told a news conference that around 120 officers had defected in recent days.
One of them, General Salah Giuma Yahmed, said the regime`s army was now at 20 percent capacity and asserted that Kadhafi`s forces could no longer prop up the regime.
"The international forces are paralysing Kadhafi`s troops," he said.
A group of 34 people arrived in Tunisia from Libya on Friday, also by sea, including civilians and an unknown number of high-ranking officers, the agency reported. (*)
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