"Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and for years the second most powerful person in the country, has been killed in a village south-west of Tripoli, officials said on Tuesday night. The 53-year-old died from gunshot wounds in the town of Zintan, 85 miles south-west of the capital, according to the Libyan attorney general's office."
"Once seen as a pro-western reformer who might usher Libya towards constitutional change, Gaddafi quickly backed his father's violent crackdown on nationwide popular protests in 2011. The international criminal court in the same year issued a warrant against him for crimes against humanity over the repression, an accusation echoed by a Tripoli court in 2015. The Libyan chief prosecutor's office said it was looking for suspects and had dispatched forensic experts to the village, but did not provide further details of the killing."
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, once the second most powerful person in Libya and 53 years old, died from gunshot wounds in Zintan, 85 miles south-west of Tripoli. His office said masked assailants stormed his house, turned off cameras and clashed with him before killing him; his sister said he died near the Algeria border. The Libyan attorney general's office confirmed the gunshot death and said forensic experts were dispatched while seeking suspects. Gaddafi had been viewed as a potential reformer but supported his father's 2011 crackdown; the ICC issued a 2011 warrant and a Tripoli court echoed accusations in 2015. His death risks inflaming pro-Gaddafi factions.
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