Ousted Libya leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been captured, a National Transitional Council official has claimed. The deposed dictator was wounded. The senior NTC military official said: "He's captured. He's wounded in both legs ... He's been taken away by ambulance." However, with previous claims the leader and members of his family had been arrested or killed later proven false, the news was greeted with some scepticism. Libyan fighters had earlier overrun the last positions of Gaddafi loyalists holding out in his hometown Sirte.
The final push to capture the remaining pro-Gaddafi positions began around 8 am and was over after about 90 minutes.
Just before the assault, about five carloads of loyalists tried to flee the enclave down the coastal highway but were killed by revolutionaries .
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