The government of Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi has accused NATO forces of killing 85 civilians in an air strike. On Tuesday, Libyan state television aired images of the bodies of three children allegedly killed in the bombing of a series of farmhouses east of the capital Tripoli. The Gaddafi regime says the dead included 33 children. A local resident said he lost his daughter.

Resident: “They were innocent people—men, women and children. They all died. My two-year-old daughter and entire families here from other areas, they came all the way here to escape the bombings and the air strikes. Twenty families are dead, children and women, all of them innocent people.”

The Gaddafi regime has declared three days of mourning in response. A Gaddafi regime spokesperson condemned the attack.

Moussa Ibrahim: “For no reason whatsoever, except to open the way forward for the armed gangs of Misurata to move from the south to occupy Zlitan under the protection, the funding and the support of NATO, 85 civilians were massacred, while the world, including the international media, is watching.”

The regime’s claims have not been independently verified, and NATO has said no evidence of civilian deaths has surfaced.