Death of Muammar Gaddafi

Death of Muammar Gaddafi
Part of the Libyan Civil War
Situation in Sirte just prior to Gaddafi's death
Date 20 October 2011 Location Sirte, Libya 31°11′44″N 16°31′17″E / 31.19556°N 16.52139°E / 31.19556; 16.52139Coordinates: 31°11′44″N 16°31′17″E / 31.19556°N 16.52139°E / 31.19556; 16.52139 Result Muammar Gaddafi killed
Belligerents
National Transitional Council National Liberation Army NATO command	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Libyan Armed Forces
Commanders and leaders
Mustafa Abdul Jalil Mahmoud Jibril Suleiman Mahmoud Hamid Hassy	Muammar Gaddafi † Mutassim Gaddafi † Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr †

National Transitional Council

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured and killed on 20 October 2011 during the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi was found hiding in a culvert west of Sirte and captured by National Transitional Council forces. He was killed shortly afterwards. The NTC initially claimed he died from injuries sustained in a firefight when loyalist forces attempted to free him, although videos of his last moments show rebel fighters beating him and one of them sodomizing him with a bayonet before he was shot several times as he shouted for his life.

After the fall of Tripoli to forces of the opposition National Transitional Council (NTC) in August 2011, Gaddafi and his family escaped the Libyan capital. He was widely rumoured to have taken refuge in the south of the country. In fact, though, Gaddafi had fled in a small convoy to Sirte on the day Tripoli fell. His son Mutassim Gaddafi followed in a second convoy.

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