Libyan fighters celebrate in the streets of Sirte Libya in this image taken from TV Thursday. The Libyan fighters on Thursday overran the remaining positions of Moammar Gadhafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte, ending the last major resistance by former regime supporters still holding out two months after the fall of the capital Tripoli. AP
Moammar Gadhafi. AP File Photo
TRIPOLI—Moammar Gadhafi was captured as his hometown of Sirte was falling on Thursday, a National Transitional Council commander said.
Al Jazeera, quoting sources, said Gadhafi was killed although other reports said he was only badly wounded.
“He has been captured. He is badly wounded, but he is still breathing,” Mohamed Leith told Agence France-Presse, adding that he had seen Gadhafi himself and that he was wearing a khaki uniform and a turban.
Libyan TV channel “Libya lil Ahrar” said that he was in custody.
In Sirte, medics said the defense minister in Gadhafi’s ousted regime, Abu Bakr Yunis, had been killed in the final battle for the strongman’s hometown.
His body was identified at the field hospital where it was brought in a pick-up truck on Thursday, Dr. Abdu Rauf told AFP.