8:35 am ET: ?This is the alleged photograph of a critically wounded Qaddafi.?
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8:12 am ET: ?Reuters?adds new information about Qaddafi, with no confirmation from the U.S. State Department about the news. "He was also hit in his head," and National Transitional Council official told the news outlet. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died."
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7:55 am ET: The latest Reuters Flash?now says that Qaddafi has died from wounds according to a National Transitional Council official. Al Jazeera is also saying the same thing. Nothing appears confirmed yet.
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7:40 am ET: ?From Reuters: "Libyan govt fighter says Gaddafi was hiding in a hole in Sirte, shouting "don't shoot, don't shoot". It also adds in a later tweet that "U.S. State Department says it cannot confirm media reports of Gaddafi's capture."
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7:30 am ET:?After the capture of Sirte, Qaddafi's hometown, Libyan rebels are now saying they have captured Muammar Qaddafi, says Libyan state television relayed by CNN, cautioning that the report couldn't be confirmed. NPR's Twitter authority Andy Carvin relays from Al Jazeera that a Former?Libyan Information Minister says Qaddafi was captured. He also added that the reports aren't confirmed.?
On Thursday, Libyan rebels captured the residential area of Sirte, the hometown of dictator Muammar Qaddafi and described by the?Associated Press?as the "last major resistance by former regime supporters still holding out two months after the fall of the capital Tripoli." Earlier in the week the stronghold of Bani Wald was slowly taken, and rebel forces eventually cornered Qaddafi forces into a 700 square meter area, the AP reported.?Reuters, citing?witnesses in the area, wrote that Libyan forces raised the new flag in the center of the city above a large utilities building while celebratory gunfire broke out.?The Guardian?points to this screenshot below from Al Jazeera showing one fighter hoisting the flag:
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