Gaddafi to be buried in secret desert location

THE body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried today in a simple ceremony, attended by Muslim clerics, in a secret location in the Libyan desert, an official with the National Transitional Council said yesterday.

“He will be buried in a simple burial with sheikhs attending the burial. It will be an unknown location in the open desert,” the official told Reuters by telephone, adding that the decomposition of the body had reached the point where the “corpse cannot last longer.”

“No agreement was reached for his tribe to take him,” he added. Gaddafi’s son Mo’tassim will be buried in the same ceremony.