Muammar Gadhafi is dead and the fallen dictator’s body was paraded through the streets of his hometown of Sirte, Libya yesterday, while cheerful crowds chanted and fired AK-47 guns in the air.
STORY: Muammar Gadhafi Dead
We reported yesterday that the Libyan dictator was killed in gunfire between Gadhafi’s supporters and the NTC fighters.
As far as the exact circumstances of his death, many are still unclear. There have been conflicting accounts of Gadhafi’s death circulating.
But the video footage of his last moments offer new clues into what happened.
As Reported By The Times Of India:
Gadhafi was still alive when he was captured near Sirte. In the video, filmed by a bystander in the crowd and later aired on television around the world, Gadhafi is shown being dragged off a vehicle’s bonnet and pulled to the ground by his hair.
“Keep him alive, keep him alive!” someone shouts. Gunshots then ring out. The camera veers off.
“They captured him alive and while he was being taken away, they beat him and then they killed him,” one senior source in the NTC told Reuters. “He might have been resisting.”
In what appeared to contradict the events depicted in the video, Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council said Gadhafi was killed when a gunfight broke out after his capture between his supporters and government fighters.
He died from a bullet wound to the head.
It was a day that will go down in Libya’s history forever. The days of Gadhafi ruling with an iron fist is over and the people can now rejoice.
SOURCE: TOI
