Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, 53-year-old son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has reportedly shot dead.
Khaled al-Zaidi, his lawyer said, a four-man commando unit assassinated him at his home in Zintan, though it’s unclear who may have been behind the attack. His sister told a conflicting account, claiming that he died near the Algerian border.
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.
He played a key role in Libya’s rapprochement with the West from 2000 until the collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
After his father’s fall, he was imprisoned for six years by a Zintan militia, sentenced to death in absentia in Tripoli. The International Criminal Court wanted to put him on trial for crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the suppression of opposition protests in 2011.
