Misrata: In pictures

A Turkish soldier keeps watch over Niger nationals sitting on the dock waiting to board a Turkish ship evacuating people from the fighting in Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Sub-Saharan African nationals wait to board an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ferry at the port in Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A family with a wounded child walk towards a ferry to be evacuated from the fighting in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Wounded foreign refugees on board a ship fleeing the fighting in Misrata, Libya Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP

Libyan girl Heba al-Rashami, three, is treated in hospital in Misrata for injuries sustained by shrapnel from the shelling near her house Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP

Medics struggle to bring a wounded rebel fighter to a hospital in the city of Misrata as crowds surround arriving ambulances Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images

Libyan rebel fighters mill around in a Tripoli side street Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A Libyan rebel gestures as he enters a building, believed to have been captured from troops loyal to Gaddafi Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images

Libyan rebel fighters sit inside empty shipping containers outfitted with furniture, carpets and generator-powered TVs and watch Al-Jazeera reports of their war with Gaddafi Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP

Libyan rebel fighters storm out of a building occupied by forces loyal to Gaddafi on Tripoli Street Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images

An evacuee sleeps on the deck of the Ionian Spirit ferry, which is taking injured residents and stranded foreign refugees from Misrata to Benghazi Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP

A wounded Libyan rebel fighter runs in an alleyway during house-to house fighting with pro-Gaddafi troops on Tripoli Street Photograph: AP

A rebel fighter mourns the death of one of the rebel commanders in Misrata hospital Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters

A Libyan rebel fighter fires from a window as comrades look on as they engage with pro-Gaddafi troops in Misrata Photograph: AP

A man tends his wounded brother, who was hit by a mortar blast a week ago, in a temporary intensive care unit on board the Ionian Spirit ferry Photograph: Nasser Nasser/AP

A Libyan rebel fighter climbs off a destroyed tank in the besieged city of Misrata Photograph: AP

Evacuees arrive by ship in the port of Benghazi. A Turkish ship named Ankara arrived with 980 evacuees from the battered city of Misrata Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP