Muammar Gaddafi reportedly killed as final loyalist stronghold falls

An mobile phone image of a badly injured Muammar Gaddafi,
 who has reportedly been killed in fighting in Libya. 

VETERAN Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi has been killed by new regime forces in their final assault on the last pocket of resistance in his hometown Sirte.

``We announce to the world that Gaddafi has been killed at the hands of the revolution,'' National Transitional Council spokesman Abdel Hafez Ghoga said on Thursday in the eastern city of Benghazi.

``It is an historic moment. It is the end of tyranny and dictatorship. Gaddafi has met his fate,'' he added.
Another NTC commander said one of Gaddafi's sons, Mutassim, was also killed in Sirte.

``We found him dead. We put his body and that of (former defence minister) Abu Bakr Yunis Jabar in an ambulance to take them to Misrata,'' said Mohamed Leith.