The captured son of Muammar Gaddafi’s is being treated well but has not had access to a lawyer, an international rights group has said.

The Libyan government has denied rebel reports that Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son was killed in a Nato air strike on a front-line town in western Libya.

Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son has been killed in a Nato air strike, according to unconfirmed reports received by Libyan rebels.

Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi cast doubt on Libyan reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s son and three grandchildren were killed in a Nato air strike, saying coalition forces believed the claim to be “propaganda”.