One Gaddafi son dead, another hurt

One of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons has been killed and another injured, Libyan officials confirmed tonight.

Information minister Mahmoud Shammam said Muatassim Gaddafi, his father’s former national security adviser, had been killed in Sirte.

The transitional government also said one-time heir apparent Seif al-Islam was captured wounded by revolutionary fighters and is in hospital.

Meanwhile, Amnesty International called for an independent inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Muammar Gaddafi, who appears to have been captured alive before being shot.

Footage broadcast by Arab satellite television stations showed the ousted Libyan dictator being manhandled by pro-government fighters.

He is bloodied and looks weak in the images but can be heard shouting at his captors as he is bundled towards a car. Soon afterwards, he was shot.

Human rights campaign group Amnesty called for the National Transitional Council (NTC) to publish the full facts of Gaddafi’s death and hold a “full, independent and impartial inquiry to establish the circumstances of Colonel al-Gaddafi’s death”.