New video shows Gaddafi being beaten by Libya rebels
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A fresh video has gone viral on Web describing in shocking new detail Muammar Gaddafi's final moments in the hands of Libyan rebels.
Reportedly shot by an NTC fighter, the clip shows Gaddafi being dragged and beaten by captors as automatic gunfire rings out in the background.
A severely bleeding Gaddafi is then hauled to a nearby SUV and then surrounded by more rebels.
Fighters from the National Transitional Council had found the former dictator hiding in a drain in Sirte, Libya.
The video also carries a credit animation from a group called Freedom Group TV.
On Tuesday, Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location, an NTC official said, ending a wrangle over their rotting corpses that led to fears for Libya's stability.
With their Western allies uneasy that Gaddafi was roughed up and shot after his capture on Thursday, NTC forces had put the body on show in a cold store while they argued over what to do with it, until its decay forced them to close the doors on Monday.
"Gaddafi and the son, Mo'tassim, were buried at dawn in a secret place with proper respects paid. We will release more details officially later," a senior interim government official said.
A military official from the town of Misrata, where the corpses had been on public display in a meat locker, confirmed the burials.
Saif Al-Islam 'near border'
An NTC official said Gaddafi's long-time heir-apparent Saif al-Islam was in the remote southern desert and set to flee Libya, with the NTC powerless to stop him.
"He's on the triangle of Niger and Algeria. He's south of Ghat, the Ghat area. He was given a false Libyan passport from the area of Murzuq," the official added.
He said Muammar Gaddafi's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi who, like Saif al-Islam, is wanted by the International Criminal Court, was involved in the matter.
"The region is very, very difficult to monitor and encircle," he said. "The region is a desert region and it has ... many, many exit routes."
In Misrata, Libya's long-besieged third city, whose war leaders want a big role in the peace, fighters handing out surgical masks on Monday against the stench were still ushering hundreds of sightseers into the chilled room where the bodies of Gaddafi, his son Mo'tassim and his former army chief lay on the floor, their flesh darkening and leaking fluids.
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Officials at one point declared the show was over, closed the gates and started turning people away.
"That's enough," said one of the guards.
"He's been causing us as much trouble dead as he did alive." But within an hour, there was a change of plan as dozens more sightseers arrived and were shown in.
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