On 9 August, the Libyan government claimed that 85 civilians were killed in NATO airstrikes on a village near Zliten.[43] A NATO spokesman said that they were targeting four buildings in which nine vehicles were destroyed and that government claim "was not corroborated by available factual information at the site".[44] The Libyan government declared three days of national mourning. Reporters were later taken to a hospital where they saw at least 30 dead bodies including the bodies of at least two young children.