Former Libyan leader Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi is dead, several reports have stated.
According to Retuers, the 69-year-old died of wounds suffered on Thursday, October 20, 2011, as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya‘s interim rulers said.
After 8 months of unrest in Libya, Gaddafi was reportedly captured in his hometown after revolutionary fighter attacked his house in Sirte. According to the reports, he was shot several times while trying to escape.
‘He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head’. There was a lot of firing against his group and he died‘, National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters.
Gaddafi’s death however remains unclear as there little or no evidence to prove this news.
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