Wounded, weakened and covered in blood and dirt, the bedraggled fallen dictator was hauled from a truck to meet his unceremonious end.
In front of a baying mob and amid gun-waving chaotic scenes, Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan leader, begged the revolutionary soldiers for his life.
Becoming increasingly desperate, he asked one rebel fighter: ‘What did I ever do to you?’
But his pleas fell on deaf ears.
The deposed despot was thrown onto another truck and taken away – to be mercilessly shot to death.
His spilt blood heralded the end of a terrible 42-year epoch in Libyan history.
Like Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi’s last hiding place was no more than a hole in the ground, a storm drain near to where his last few loyalists had staged their last stand
As news of his death swept through the country and across the world, bloody images of the 69-year-old tyrant slumped across the legs of a revolutionary fighter emerged.
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