A Libyan official said Gaddafi, 69, was killed in custody. Jerky video shown on Al Jazeera showed a man looking like Gaddafi, with distinctive long, curly hair, blooded and staggering under blows from armed men, apparently NTC fighters. "They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed," one senior source in the NTC told Reuters. Another son, heir-apparent Saif al-Islam, was variously reported to be surrounded, captured or killed as conflicting accounts of the day's events crackled around networks of NTC fighters rejoicing in Sirte. However, he was stopped by a French airstrike and captured, possibly some hours later, after gun battles with NTC fighters who found him hiding in a drainage culvert.

Source: Libya Today October 20, 2019 09:56 UTC