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Gaddafi son killed as Nato strikes Tripoli

Reuters | Byletters@hindustantimes.com, Tripoli
May 02, 2011 01:38 AM IST

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said.

Libya said on Sunday Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son and three grandchildren were killed in a Nato air strike.
Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said Gaddafi was unharmed and in good health despite what he called “a direct operation to assassinate the leader of this country”.

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The deaths have not been independently confirmed but could trigger a backlash against the West. Britain and Italy’s embassies in Tripoli were attacked. Nato denied targeting Gaddafi, or his family.

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Libyan officials took journalists to a Tripoli house that had been hit by at least three missiles. Ibrahim said Gaddafi's youngest son, Saif al-Arab, was killed in the attack. Saif al-Arab, 29, is one of Gaddafi's less prominent sons, with a limited role in the power structure. Ibrahim described him as a student who had studied in Germany.

The grandchildren killed were pre-teens, Ibrahim said.

In New Delhi, the CPM demanded immediate end to Nato strikes and said India push for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

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