Libya's revolutionary leaders say that negotiations over the peaceful handover of the loyalist town of Bani Walid, 150km southeast of the capital Tripoli, have collapsed and fighters have surrounded the city.
Al Jazeera's Sue Turton, reporting from near Bani Walid on Sunday, said the fighters are now hoping the people in the town will rise up against supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader.
"The negotiations are dead and buried," she said.
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Our correspondent said fighters belonging to the National Transitional Council (NTC) outside Bani Walid estimate the number of Gaddafi troops remaining in the town at less than 100.
"This is aside from the Gaddafi loyalists who we've heard have come out, who are manning checkpoints ... civilians who have weapons," she said.
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