Gaddafi’s widow demands probe into husband’s killing in Sirte

Killed Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s widow, Safia, has urged the United Nations to investigate how her husband was killed at the hands of the rebels in the former dictator’s home city of Sirte.

She also insisted that she was very proud of the courage shown by her husband and children, the Daily Mail reports.     

The United Nations and Amnesty International also called for investigations, as videos emerged of how he was captured alive and later killed by rebels.  

According to a Syrian TV report, Gaddafi’s daughter Aisha had called the killed dictator’s mobile phone after seeing reports in Algeria that he had been captured. Aisha screamed and called the rebels ‘rats’ after they answered the phone call.

It emerged that Gaddafi’s son Mutassim, who commanded the defence of Sirte, was also killed after capture.

Yesterday his body, scarred by numerous cigarette burns, was laid out beside his father’s in a makeshift mortuary at an old meat store in the coastal city of Misrata.