Transitional Council spokesman says Gaddafi is dead

Date: 20-10-2011 2:09 pm (13 years ago) | Author: IKUSHIKA OLUWAROTIMI AYOKUNMI
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A spokesman for Libya's National Transitional Council has told Sky News that deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been killed, and that his body is currently being transported from Sirte.

Mystery surrounds his fate today after conflicting reports that he had been captured or killed in the fall of his home town Sirte.

Libyan officials and Nato say they cannot confirm the reports from revolutionary fighters.

The Misrata Military Council, one of multiple command groups for revolutionary forces, says its fighters captured Gaddafi in Sirte.

Another commander, Abdel-Basit Haroun, says Gaddafi was killed when an air strike hit a convoy trying to flee.

The spokesman for Libya’s transitional government, Jalal al-Gallal, and its military spokesman Abdul-Rahman Busin say the reports have not been confirmed.

Earlier revolutionary fighters overcame the last resistance by Gaddafi loyalists holding out in Sirte.

The final push to capture the remaining pro-Gaddafi positions lasted about 90 minutes.
MOUNTING reports indicate that ousted Libyan strongman Muammar Gadaffi has died of wounds he sustained in a gun battle near his hometown of Sirte.

The former statesman was captured under uncomfirmed circumstances and wounded in both legs near his hometown of Sirte at dawn on Thursday, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid has told Reuters.

Majid reported the capture after Libyan interim government fighters took the town on Thursday, extinguishing the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the former leader and ending a two-month siege.

"He's captured. He's wounded in both legs ... He's been taken away by ambulance," the senior NTC military official told Reuters by telephone.

Gaddafi was trying to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked, Majid said. The head of Gaddafi's armed forces Abu Bakr Younus Jabr had been killed during the capture of the Libyan ex-leader, he added.

Majid said NATO warplanes struck the convoy and hit four cars as it headed west. Ahmed Ibrahim, a cousin and adviser of Gaddafi, was also captured.

In the capital Tripoli, sounds of gun shots were heard and people cheered in the street: "God is Great, God is Great, Gaddafi has been captured."

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