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Al-Jazeera English – LIVE! NTC confirms: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is Dead
Anti-Gaddafi fighters claim former stronghold of Sirte
(France24/AFP) – BREAKING NEWS: Muammar Gaddafi wounded but under arrest!
Unconfirmed reports of Gaddafi death surfaceForces fighting for Libya’s National Transitional Council said they had captured the last areas held by troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown and former stronghold of Sirte. New regime troops were poised to declare victory in their long siege of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in their last redoubt in his hometown Sirte, a commander told AFP on the front line.
“This is the last day of the fight,” said Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Abdel Salam of the Misrata Brigade. “Within some hours we will announce that Sirte is free.”
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Abdel Salam said that National Transitional Council troops were carrying out a mopping up operation in the city’s Number Two residential neighbourhood, the last redoubt of Kadhafi loyalists in all of Libya.
“We are now inside to look for Kadhafi fighters hiding in the houses and for guns and weapons. We started at 6 am (0400 GMT) this morning.”
An AFP correspondent heard sporadic gunfire in the neighbourhood during the morning as NTC fighters went house to house to root out the snipers who have inflicted heavy losses in their ranks in recent days.
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