Gaddafi shot in head and stomach
Gaddafi shot in head and stomach
Colonel Gaddafi's post mortem revealed he was shot once in the head and once in the stomach, it is claimed today.
A doctor involved in carrying out an overnight autopsy on the the former Libyan dictator confirmed he had died of a gunshot wound.
A medical source in Libya said: "There are multiple injuries. There is a bullet in the abdomen and in the brain."
Sources say it is unclear whether the bullet was fired by rebels or pro-Gaddafi forces.
The autopsy was carried out at a morgue in the city of Misrata, about 130 miles east of Tripoli.
Local officials said Gaddafi's body would now be brought back to the cold store at an old market in Misrata where it has been on public display.
The very public death of Gaddafi has been met with wild celebrations across much of Libya.
In Benghazi fighters were welcomed home by huge parties and thousands of people parading in the streets.
Groups chanted: "Where is he? Where is the man who called us rats?" and "Raise your head up high, you are a free Libyan."
Wesam el-Mughrabi, a 24-year-old medical student, exclaimed: "I wish my father could be alive to see this day. Like many Libyans, he always dreamed that one day Gaddafi would be gone - but until now it had been only a dream."
Britain today urged the new Libyan government to mount an investigation into the killing of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the reputation of the new National Transitional Council had been "a little bit stained" by the way Gaddafi died at the hands of his captors.
Graphic footage broadcast around the world from the scene showed a wounded and bleeding Gaddafi being manhandled by fighters loyal to the NTC before apparently being shot.
"It is not the way we would have liked it to have happened.
"We would have liked to see Colonel Gaddafi going on trial, ideally at the International Criminal Court, to answe! r for hi s misdeeds," Mr Hammond said this morning.
"I think that the fledgling Libyan government will understand that its reputation in the international community is a little bit stained by what happened.
"I am sure that it will want to get to the bottom of it in a way that rebuilds and cleanses that reputation."
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