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Gaddafi was wounded by fragments of a grenade thrown by one of his own men, which bounced off a wall and fell in front of Gaddafi, shredding his flak jacket. He sat on the floor dazed and in shock, bleeding from a wound in the left temple. Then one of his group waved a white turban in surrender.
Oct 31, 2011 · Col Muammar Gaddafi died from bullet wounds some time after a failed attempt to escape from the fighters of the National Transitional Council (NTC), but the exact circumstances of his...
Oct 22, 2011 · The commander of forces who captured Muammar Gaddafi has given details of the Libyan ex-leader's last moments. Omran al-Oweib told the BBC that the injured colonel was dragged from a drainage...
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Oct 21, 2011 · Celebrations continue across Libya the day after Moammar Gadhafi was killed by rebel forces in his hometown of Sirte, while details of the hours and minutes that led up to his death begin to surface.
Nov 5, 2018 · What led to Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall and the break-up of Libya? Read more On October 20, 2011, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was dragged from a drain pipe, tortured and killed.
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Oct 16, 2012 · Mutassim Gaddafi was dead by the afternoon of October 20, just hours after his capture. Libyan television broadcast footage of his dead body on a hospital stretcher in the afternoon of...
Official NTC accounts claimed that Gaddafi was caught in a crossfire and died from bullet wounds. Other eye-witness accounts claimed that rebels had fatally shot Gaddafi in the stomach. [467] That afternoon, NTC Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril publicly revealed the news of Gaddafi's death. [467]
