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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Tripoli, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) — Libya's attorney general's office confirmed early Wednesday that late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, was killed after sustaining fatal gunshot wounds on Tuesday.
In a statement published Wednesday on the Prosecutor General's Office's official social media page, the agency said that after receiving information about the death of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, investigators authorized by the Prosecutor General went to the scene to collect evidence and question witnesses as part of the preliminary investigation.
The statement also stated that on Tuesday, an investigative team, accompanied by forensic experts specializing in firearms, fingerprinting, toxicology, and other fields, conducted forensic activities at the scene. Preliminary results confirmed that the victim suffered fatal gunshot wounds.
Late on Tuesday, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's political team said he had been killed earlier in the day by four armed men who stormed his residence in the town of Zintan, about 136 kilometers (85 miles) southwest of Tripoli.
Following the NATO-backed uprising of 2011 that ended his father's rule, a Tripoli court sentenced Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to death in absentia in 2015. In 2017, he was released by the militias that controlled Ez-Zintan as part of an amnesty announced by the authorities in eastern Libya.
In November 2021, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi made his first public appearance in years, filing a petition to run as a candidate in the Libyan presidential elections, but was later disqualified by Libya's Supreme National Electoral Commission.
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