A battalion commander of the marine corps and a soldier in the Libyan army were killed, while five others were injured during fierce clashes between Shura Council forces and Benghazi revolutionaries.

The media department head in al Jala'a Hospital, Fadia al Bargothy, told MENA that the hospital received two bodies of an officer and a soldier.

Bargothy also said that the hospital received five wounded soldiers who were offered treatment, adding that three of them have already been discharged.