Gadhafi dead, reports say
Posted Oct 20, 2011 09:24:32 AM.
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Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi is reportedly dead, according to both Reuters and Al Jazeera.
Officials in Libya’s transitional government said Gadhafi has been captured and possibly killed in the fall of his hometown but there is no confirmation from the country’s most senior leaders.
NATO said it hit a convoy of Gadhafi’s loyalists fleeing Sirte on Thursday morning but it could not confirm whether the ousted Libyan leader was in the convoy or possibly killed or captured.
Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam said he has confirmed that Gadhafi was dead from fighters that said they saw the body. He says he expects the prime minister to confirm the death soon, noting that past reports emerged “before making 100 per cent confirmation.”
Past reports of Gadhafi deaths or captures have later proven
