£1m bounty for Gaddafi as he vows to fight on

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.

As the Moroccan government recognised the Libyan opposition as the legitimate representative of the North African country’s people, rocket and machine-gun fire from pockets of loyalists kept the fighters at bay as they tried to hunt down Gaddafi and his sons.

Rebels ransacked Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya bastion, seizing arms and smashing symbols of a ruler whose fall will transform Libya and rattle other Arab autocrats facing uprisings.