Libya: Unconfirmed reports indicate Gadhafi son reported captured

Revolutionary forces captured fighters close to Mutassim Gaddafi, one of fugitive leader Muammar Gaddafi’s sons in his father’s home town, but there was no confirmation that he had been captured, a Libyan spokesman said.

Jalal el-Gallal, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council in the eastern city of Benghazi, said his office had called commanders in the besieged city of Sirte and “so far as we are concerned there is no confirmation that Mutassim Gaddafi has been captured”.

He was commenting following reports that the son had been seized, which prompted heavy celebratory gunfire in Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi.