The battle for Tripoli – day two

Rebel fighters fire towards forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi during fierce gun fights in downtown Tripoli on Monday. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP

Rebel fighters during fighting in downtown Tripoli on Monday. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP

Rebels run to take up positions during fighting in Tripoli. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP

Rebel fighters shoot towards pro-Gaddafi forces on Monday. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP

A Libyan rebel fighter holds a captured pro-Gaddafi fighter inside a military base in Tripoli. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP

Smoke billows from a burning car as a Libyan rebel stands guard outside the women's military academy in Tripoli. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

A Libyan rebel fighter takes up a position during an attack by pro-Gaddafi forces after rebels seized a Gaddafi army women's officer training centre in Tripoli. Photograph: Bob Strong/Reuters

Smoke billows from a neighbourhood in Tripoli on Monday. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

Libyan rebels prepare to break their fast with the "iftar" meal in Tripoli. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images

An armoured vehicle speeds on the outskirts of Tripoli as huge smoke rises over a neighbourhood. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP

A man wounded by a sniper is brought to a rebel makeshift checkpoint. Photograph: Marco Salustro /EPA

Anti Gaddafi supporters demonstrate in the street during the night after the rebels entered Tripoli on Monday. Photograph: Marco Salustro /EPA