A reward of over €1m is on offer for anyone able to capture Colonel Muammar Gaddafi dead or alive as it emerged today that the SAS was leading the hunt for the Libyan despot.

LIBYA’S new masters offered a £1 million bounty for the fugitive Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, after he urged his men to carry on a battle that kept the capital in a state of fear.

EVEN after rebels stormed into the capital and overwhelmed his residence, Muammar Gaddafi had plenty of places to hide.

Scattered battles flared across Tripoli today with pro-regime snipers cutting off the airport road while others launched repeated attacks on Muammar’s Gaddafi’s captured private compound.

Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi hit back at rebels in Tripoli today launching repeated attacks on the sprawling government compound captured a day earlier.

Muammar Gaddafi has called on the residents of the Libyan capital to "free Tripoli" from the "devils" who have overrun it.

A massive manhunt was under way for Muammar Gaddafi today as Libya braced itself for life after the hated dictator.

TRIUMPHANT rebels seized Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli after a fierce battle with a loyalist rearguard but there was no word on the fate of the Libyan leader who vowed again to fight “to the end”.

Hundreds of Libyan rebels have stormed Muammar Gaddafi’s main military compound in Tripoli.

Fierce fighting has again broken out near Colonel Gaddafi's residence between forces loyal to him and rebel fighters.

Doctors in Tripoli are putting pressure on both the rebel forces and government loyalists to stop attacking the hospitals there.

The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early today a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his father’s loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion.

Muammar Gaddafi has apparently vanished after Libyan rebels claimed to be in control of most of Tripoli following their lightning advance on the capital.

Tanks opened fire at rebels trying to storm Muammar Gaddafi’s main compound in Tripoli today, although he appeared to have vanished a day after the lightning advance by his opponents into the city.

Clashes broke out near Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli early today, a day after rebels poured into the Libyan capital in a stunning advance which met little resistance from the regime’s defenders.

At least seven loud blasts were heard in Tripoli early today as bombs fell in the vicinity of Muammar Gaddafi’s main compound of Bab al-Aziziya.

An apparent Nato airstrike has again targeted the area near Muammar Gaddafi’s compound during a pre-dawn raid in the Libyan capital Tripoli.

SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma met Muammar Gaddafi for truce talks last night as NATO said the Libyan leader’s “reign of terror” was nearing its end and top military officers deserted him.

NATO carried out some of its heaviest strikes on Tripoli yesterday after it emerged that Britain and France are to deploy attack helicopters in Libya in an effort to break the stalemate in the conflict.

Nato warplanes have bombarded targets in Tripoli with more than 20 air strikes around Muammar Gaddafi’s residential compound early today, in what appeared to be the heaviest night of bombing in the Libyan capital since the Western alliance launched its air campaign against his forces.

Nato fighter jets struck the harbour in Tripoli bombing runs overnight, damaging five coast guard boats and a warship, the Libyan government said today.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi taunted Nato, saying he was alive despite a series of air strikes and “in a place where you can’t get to and kill me”.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says in an audio recording he is alive after Nato attacks and “in a place where you can’t get me”.

Pressure is mounting on Muammar Gaddafi from within his stronghold in the Libyan capital, with increasing Nato air strikes, worsening shortages of fuel and goods and a wave of anti-government protests in several neighbourhoods, according to an activist.

ANGRY mobs attacked Western embassies and UN offices in Tripoli after NATO bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s family compound, reportedly killing the leader’s second-youngest son and three grandchildren.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has escaped a Nato missile strike in Tripoli, but one of his sons and three grandchildren under the age of 12 were killed, a government spokesman said.

A delegation of African leaders said that their Libyan counterpart, Muammar Gaddafi, accepted their “road map” for a ceasefire with rebels, whom they will meet today.

THE parents of a Libyan woman who claimed she was detained by Muammar Gaddafi’s troops and later gang raped said that their daughter is being held hostage at the Libyan leader’s compound in Tripoli.

The parents of the Libyan woman who claimed she was gang raped by Gaddafi’s troops have said today she was being held hostage at the Libyan leader’s compound in Tripoli.

Muammar Gaddafi’s forces increased their shelling of rebels outside a strategic eastern city today as they attempted to stop them from taking advantage of the international air campaign.

The US and European nations targeted Muammar Gaddafi's forces with airstrikes and dozens of cruise missiles today in an allied assault aimed at enforcing a no-fly zone.

Libyan helicopter gunships fired on a rebel force advancing west toward the capital along the Mediterranean coastline today and forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi fought intense ground battles with the rival fighters.

Libyan war planes today launched airstrikes and troops engaged in heavy ground battles with a rebel force advancing west toward the capital Tripoli along the country’s Mediterranean coastline.

The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi went on state television to proclaim that his father remained in charge with the army’s backing and would “fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet”.