Muammar Gaddafi and his sons Saadi and Seif al-Islam are in the town of Bani Walid south of Tripoli, Italian news agency ANSA said Monday, citing “authoritative Libyan diplomatic sources”.
ANSA cited the same sources in Rome saying that Gaddafi’s wife Safiya and three of his other children, Aisha, Hannibal and Mohammed were in Algeria.
The Algerian foreign ministry later confirmed the four crossed into Algeria earlier Monday.
ANSA said another Gaddafi son, Khamis, had “almost certainly” been killed on the way from Tripoli to Bani Walid.
Libya’s rebel leadership on Sunday said that Khamis, whose death has been announced several times since the conflict erupted, may have been killed in a clash with rebel fighters in Tarhuna.
Bani Walid is about 100 kilometres from the Libyan capital.
Libya’s defected former prime minister Abessalam Jalloud, who has fled to Rome, last week said Gaddafi could be hiding south of Tripoli.
“There are two possibilities: either he is hiding south of Tripoli or he left some time ago,” Jalloud told reporters. — AFP