‎Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, has reportedly been shot dead.
‎The death of the 53-year-old, who was once widely seen as his father’s heir apparent, was confirmed by the head of his political team on Tuesday
‎His lawyer told news men that a four-man commando unit carried out an assassination at his home in the city of Zintan, though it was not clear who may have been behind the attack.
‎In a competing version of events, his sister reported that he had died near the country’s border with Algeria.
‎Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was long seen as the most influential and feared figure in the country after his father, who ruled Libya from 1969 until being ousted and killed during an uprising in 2011.
‎Born in 1972, he played a key role in Libya’s rapprochement with the West from 2000 until the collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
Edited by Favour Owonibi.