NewsCore From: NewsCore October 20, 2011 11:46PM
Muammar Gaddafi was shot in his hometown of Sirte. Source: AFP
OUSTED Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi is dead, a Transitional National Council (TNC) official has confirmed to Sky News. "
Muammar Gaddafi had been on the run since mid-August. Source: AFP
Gaddafi is dead. He is absolutely dead ... he was shot in both legs and in the head. The body will be arriving in Misrata soon," media spokesman Abdullah Berrassali told Sky News.
Gaddafi was captured as his hometown of Sirte was falling today, NTC commander Mohamed Leith said.
"He has been captured. He is badly wounded, but he is still breathing," Mohamed Leith told AFP earlier, adding that he had seen Gaddafi himself and that he was wearing a khaki uniform and a turban.
The Daily Mail reported that one rebel fighter reportedly said the leader was hiding in a hole in Sirte, shouting "Don't shoot. Don't shoot" when his position was uncovered.
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Neither NATO nor the US State Department were able to confirm Gaddafi's capture.
Gaddafi and his family have been on the run since NATO and rebels started closing the net on Tripoli in mid-August.
Earlier, the TNC's UK spokesman, Mahmoud Nacua, warned that there was "not enough information" to confirm Gaddafi's capture, and a former TNC spokesman in Britain, Guma al Gamati told Sky News that "this is not confirmed".
The BBC's Caroline Hawley in Tripoli said ships and cars were sounding their horns in the capital and guns were being fired in celebration.
Earlier, NTC commanders in Sirte - about 360km east of Tripoli - said the city had been liberated.
"There are no Gaddafi forces any more," Col Yunus al-Abdali told Reuters.
"We are now chasing his fighters who are trying to run away."
There was no confirmation of liberation from the NTC leadership.
But fighters in Sirte celebrated by firing in the air, and chanting "Allah akbar" ("God is great").
Rebel fighters celebrate in Sirte. Picture: AP
Interim government forces had been facing heavy resistance from snipers in the city, and used heavy artillery during its offensive. Thousands of civilians have fled.
Sirte was the last holdout against rebel forces. The town's capture would pave the way for the TNC to officially take control of Libya and move its headquarters away from its Benghazi stronghold in the east to the capital, Tripoli.
In Sirte, medics said the defence minister in Gaddafi's ousted regime, Abu Bakr Yunis, had been killed in the final battle for the strongman's hometown.
His body was identified at the field hospital where it was brought in a pick-up truck on Thursday, Dr Abdu Rauf told AFP.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said in response to reports of Gaddafi's capture that only the Libyan people could decide the deposed strongman's fate.
"The fate of Gaddafi should be decided by the Libyan people," Mr Medvedev was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.
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