Mutassim Gaddafi, the fifth son of deceased Libyan leader, Moamar Gaddafi has been killed in Sirte following the death of his father hours earlier.
Mutassim Gaddafi, the fifth son of deceased Libyan leader, Moamar Gaddafi has been killed in Sirte following the death of his father hours earlier.
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Mutassim, who was his father’s National Security Adviser, was killed while resisting his captors. It is unclear if Mutassim was captured today before hs death as NTC rebels earlier claimed that he had been captured and held by their forces last week.
“We found him dead. We put his body and that of (former defence minister) Abu Bakr Yunis in an ambulance to take them to Misrata,” said Mohamed Leith, the commander of National Transitional Council
Additionally, the BBC reports that rebels captured Gaddafi former security chief, Mansour Daw, who, it had been reported, fled to Niger.
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