Gaddafi killed by crossfire, says Libya’s interim prime minister

Forensic report says Muammar Gaddafi was shot in arm upon capture, then in the head while being driven away Muammar Gaddafi died from a bullet wound to the head received in crossfire between government fighters and his own supporters after he had been captured in Sirte, the Libyan interim prime minister has said, citing a forensic report. Conflicting reports have emerged about how exactly Gaddafi died. He was captured after a Nato air strike hit his convoy as it tried to break away from the siege of his hometown. “I am going to read to you a report by the forensic doctor who examined Gaddafi,” Mahmoud Jibril told a news conference in the capital, Tripoli. “It said: ‘Gaddafi was taken out of a sewage pipe … he didn’t show any resistance. When we started moving him he was hit by a bullet in his right arm and when they put him in a truck he did not have any other injuries.’”‘When the car was moving it was caught in crossfire between the revolutionaries and Gaddafi forces in which he was hit by a bullet in the head.’” “The forensic doctor could not tell if it came from the revolutionaries or from Gaddafi’s forces,” Jibril said. Gaddafi had been alive when he was taken from Sirte but died a few minutes before reaching hospital, the prime minister said. Jibril said DNA samples and blood was taken from the body. Also removed were samples of Gaddafi’s hair but that turned out to be “fake”, seemingly confirming widespread rumours that Libya’s feared ruler of 42 years had hair implants. Libya’s National Transitional Council had been in touch with the international criminal court, which had wanted to try Gaddafi for crimes against humanity, Jibril said. It had wanted a forensic expert to inspect the body before the burial, he said, but after seeing the NTC’s own report the court agreed that would not be necessary. Gaddafi’s son Mutassim was also killed on Thursday. “As for Mutassim there is a wound in the head and a break in the skull and five bullets in the back and one in the neck,” Jibril said. Muammar Gaddafi Libya Middle East Africa guardian.co.uk

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