利比亞前領導人卡扎菲在蘇爾特被打死

Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is dead.

Libyan provisional government forces killed Gadhafi in a final assault on his coastal hometown of Sirte on Thursday, after launching an uprising in February against his four-decade autocratic rule.

The prime minister of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, confirmed Gadhafi's death at a news conference in Tripoli. He also said it is time for Libyans to build a new, united Libya.

The United States says it received confirmation of the former leader's death from Libyan officials. Gadhafi was 69 years old.

Video footage broadcast on global television networks showed Gadhafi's bloodied corpse lying on the ground, surrounded by NTC forces who later took the body to the western city of Misrata.

The circumstances of Gadhafi's killing were not clear. NTC fighters said Gadhafi was found hiding under ground and was shot and killed as they crushed remaining resistance by his loyalists in Sirte. NATO said its warplanes also attacked two vehicles of pro-Gadhafi forces that were maneuvering around Sirte on Thursday.

Jubilant crowds filled the streets of Tripoli to celebrate Gadhafi's demise. NTC fighters also celebrated the fall of Sirte by firing shots into the air and hoisting Libya's new national flag over what was the last stronghold of Gadhafi loyalists.利比亞前領導人卡扎菲被擊斃。

利比亞臨時政府部隊星期四在對卡扎菲老家海濱城鎮蘇爾特發動最後攻勢時將他打死。利比亞今年2月爆發了反對卡扎菲40多年獨裁統治的民衆起義。

利比亞全國過渡委員會總理賈布里勒在的黎波里舉行的記者會上證實卡扎菲已經死亡。他說，現在是利比亞人民建立一個新的團結統一的利比亞的時候了。

卡扎菲今年69歲。美國表示，已經從利比亞官員那裏得到證實卡扎菲已死。

全球電視網絡播出的電視畫面顯示卡扎菲血淋淋的屍體躺在地上，周圍是過渡委的武裝人員。卡扎菲的屍體後來被運送到利比亞西部城市米蘇拉塔。

卡扎菲是如何被打死的具體情況還不明朗。全國過渡委員會武裝人員說，他們在蘇爾特擊潰卡扎菲效忠者僅存抵抗力量時發現卡扎菲躲在地下，他後來被擊斃。北約說，北約飛機星期四襲擊了效忠卡扎菲部隊的兩部車，當時那兩輛車輛在蘇爾特周圍活動。

首都的黎波里街頭到處是羣情激昂的民衆，歡慶卡扎菲之死。過渡委武裝人員也在慶祝攻取蘇爾特，他們朝天鳴槍慶賀，並升起了利比亞的新國旗。蘇爾特是卡扎菲效忠者佔據的最後一個重鎮。

賈布里勒表示，全國過渡委員會將在星期五正式宣佈利比亞從卡扎菲統治下獲得解放。