Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 20 / Trend /
Two sons of former Libyan lider Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed Thursday - Saif al-Islam and Motassim have also been killed, the website of Al Arabiya TV channel reported.
Al Arabiya correspondent confirmed the reports about the death of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
Al Arabiya earlier reported that there were unconfirmed reports that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has been arrested as he fled Sirte.
Earlier, Libya's de facto prime minister Mahmoud Jibril said he had unconfirmed reports that Saif al-Islam had been tracked down near the city of Sirte and that his convoy was under attack.
Speaking at a news conference in Tripoli, Jibril confirmed that Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years until August, had been killed after he was captured in Sirte.
"We confirm that all the evils, plus Gaddafi, have vanished from this beloved country. I think it's for the Libyans to realize that it's time to start a new Libya, a united Libya, one people, one future," he said.
He also called on neighboring Algeria to hand over members of Gaddafi's family who fled there in August. Two of Gaddafi's sons, his daughter and his wife are in Algeria.
An anti-Gaddafi fighter said Gaddafi had been found hiding in a hole in the ground and had said "Don't shoot, don't shoot" to the men who grabbed him.
His capture came within minutes of the fall of Sirte, a development that extinguished the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader.
Meanwhile, Al Arabiya showed the picture of the dead body of Gaddafi's son Motassim.
The new Libyan government's television channel broadcast a close-up picture showing Motassim lying dead on a stretcher in what appeared to be a hospital.
Motassim's head was tilted down and his long hair was hanging down from the stretcher. He was stripped to the waist. The television did not say where the picture was taken. The information minister with Libya's interim government had earlier confirmed to Reuters that Motassim was dead and had been hiding with his father in Sirte.
Earlier, there were unconfirmed reports that he had been captured alive in Sirte, fighters in the field said.
"Our information from the commanders in the field is that Motassim Gaddafi has been captured alive in Sirte," NTC's information minister, Mahmoud Shammam, told Reuters.
"We found him dead. We put his body and that of [former defense minister] Abu Bakr Yunis in an ambulance to take them to Misrata," said Mohamed Leith, who had earlier confirmed that Gaddafi had been captured in his hometown and subsequently died of his wounds.
In the meantime, another NTC commander said that Motassim was found dead in Sirte. Al Arabiya could not confirm the reports at the time.
Earlier, Damascus-based Al Rai television said that Khamis Gaddafi was killed during fighting in Tarhouna, 80 kilometres south of the capital Tripoli, on August 29.
Mass demonstrations demanding the ouster of Gaddafi, who has been ruling the country for more than 40 years, started in Libya in mid-February and subsequently grew into armed confrontation between the government forces and the rebels.
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