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In another attack on Sunday, Nato said one of its missiles struck a residential area because of "weapons failure"
Libyan officials say 15 civilians - including three children - were killed in a Nato attack on a building west of the capital, Tripoli.
Nato has said its planes struck "a key Gaddafi regime command and control node" to the west of Tripoli. A BBC correspondent taken by the Libyan government to see a compound in the western area of Sorman says the building has been pulverised.
On Sunday Nato said one of its missiles struck a residential area in Tripoli.
It admitted a "weapons failure" may have led to civilian casualties.
BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen was taken to see the remains of the country estate of Khweildy al-Hamidy, a member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Centre, the inner circle of government.
Libyan officials told him that eight rockets slammed into the place at about 0400 or 0500 on Monday morning (0200 or 0300 GMT).
There are shell holes and craters in the houses in the compound, our correspondent says, after what was a very comprehensive attack.
Nato has confirmed it carried out operations in the area of Sorman, which lies halfway between Tripoli and Zawiya to the west.
"In the early hours of Monday 20 June, Nato warplanes carried out a precision air strike against a key Gaddafi regime command and control node in the vicinity of Zawiyah to the west of Tripoli," Nato said in a statement.
"Nato carried out rigorous analysis and conducted persistent information surveillance reconnaissance over a prolonged period of time in the area prior to the strike."
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