Tripoli: Libyan revolutionary official have claimed to kill fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Khamis Gaddafi, in a battle near Tripoli and was buried in Zlitan.
Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, a senior official of the revolutionary forces in charge of the Tripoli Brigade, said on Monday that he had confirmation that Khamis was badly wounded in a battle near Ben Walid and Tarhoni, Reuters reported.
Khamis was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to his wounds, Al-Haragi added, but did not say exactly when Khamis died.
Khamis Gaddafi had been the commander of the base of the elite 32 Brigade, which had been the last stronghold of forces loyal to Gaddafi in the Tripoli until it was captured by the revolutionary forces, August 27.
There were two other reports earlier this year claiming that Khamis had been killed.
There were rumors in March that he had died after a Libyan air force pilot deliberately crashed his jet into Muammar Gaddafi’s compound, and in August the rebels claimed that they had killed him.
He appeared on Libyan television after both reports to prove he was still alive.
On August 27, an unnamed opposition source said that a convoy of six Libyan armored vehicles, which may have been transporting Gaddafi and some of his sons, had crossed into Algeria.
Later, Algeria’s Foreign Ministry has announced that the wife and three children of fugitive Muammar Gaddafi are in Libya’s neighboring state of Algeria.
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