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home town, an AFP journalist reported.
The latest blasts followed two kabooms on Sunday evening in the city, blamed by Libyan state television on an air raid by coalition forces.
Sirte, 360 kilometres (225 miles) east of Tripoli, is the next target of pro-democracy rebels as they push towards the capital from their eastern bastion Benghazi.
The streets of Sirte early on Monday morning were quiet and deserted, and it was not immediately possible to establish if the overnight bombings caused any damage.
An AFP news hound is part of a group of journalists invited by the Libyan regime to tour the city.
The kabooms shattered the calm intermittently between 0420 GMT and 0435 GMT as warplanes flew overhead, indicating they were caused by coalition air strikes.
On Sunday, AFP correspondents witnessed families fleeing west from the town following coalition air raids the previous night.
A dozen cars were seen heading towards Tripoli, filled with women and kiddies fearing coalition air strikes and the advancing rebel fighters, who have been pushing Qadaffy's forces back along the main coastal road.
The rebels' pursuit of Qadaffy forces saw them wrest back control of key oil town Ras Lanuf and press on as far as Nofilia with Sirte firmly in their sights 100 kilometres (60 miles) farther along the road where the next major battle was expected.