Gaddaffi Killed as Libya Revolt Takes Hometown

Gaddafi killed in crossfire, says Libya's interim prime minister

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Muammar Gaddafi died from a bullet wound to the pinnacle received in crossfire between government fighters and his own supporters when he had been captured in Sirte, the Libyan interim prime minister has said, citing a forensic report.

Conflicting reports have emerged concerning how precisely Gaddafi died. He was captured when a Nato airstrike hit his convoy because it tried to interrupt removed from the siege of his hometown.

"I am progressing to scan to you a report by the forensic doctor who examined Gaddafi," Mahmoud Jibril told a news conference within the capital, Tripoli.

"It said: 'Gaddafi was taken out of a sewage pipe ... he did not show any resistance. after we started moving him he was hit by a bullet in his right arm and once they place him in an exceedingly truck he didn't have the other injuries.'"'When the automobile was moving it absolutely was caught in crossfire between the revolutionaries and Gaddafi forces during which he was hit by a bullet within the head.'"

"The forensic doctor couldn't tell if it came from the revolutionaries or from Gaddafi's forces," Jibril said.

Gaddafi had been alive when he was taken from Sirte however died some minutes before reaching hospital, the prime minister said.

Jibril said DNA samples and blood was taken from the body. Conjointly taken were samples of Gaddafi's hair however that turned out to be "fake", seemingly confirming widespread rumours that Libya's feared ruler of forty two years had hair implants.

Libya's National Transitional Council had been in grips with the international criminal court, that had needed to do Gaddafi for crimes against humanity, Jibril said. It had needed a forensic knowledgeable examine the body before the burial, he said, however when seeing the NTC's own report the court agreed that might not be necessary.

Gaddafi's son Mo'tassim was conjointly killed on Thursday.