Gaddafi Captured Badly Wounded, 'Still Breathing' - Report

Libya's toppled dictator Muammar Gaddafi has been badly wounded during his capture on Thursday, but is alive, it has been reported.

A Transitional National Council official, Mohamed Leith, has announced that Col Gaddafi had been captured in Sirte and was "seriously wounded" but still breathing, BBC informs.

According to The Guardian, the Libyan interim government's information minister, Mahmoud Shamman, refused to confirm the reports, but said "big fish" are on their way to Misrata.

There has been no independent confirmation of his capture. The report comes after interim government fighters seized control over Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown and his loyalists' last pocket of resistance.

The final assault on Sirte began around 8 a.m.on Thursday  and took approximately 90 minutes, reporters at the scene have stated. The new national flag has already been hoisted by interim government fighters above the center of the city.

Muammar Gaddafi  is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

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