Gaddafi son dies in missile strike

00:05, May 1 2011

Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son has been killed in a Nato missile strike on his house, a Libyan government spokesman said.

Muammar Gaddafi and his wife were in the Tripoli house of his 29-year-old son Saif al-Arab Gaddafi when it was hit by at least one missile fired by a Nato plane, according to Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim.

The one-story house in a Tripoli residential neighbourhood was heavily damaged.

Saif al-Arab Gaddafi was the sixth son of Gaddafi.

He had spent much of his time in Germany in recent years.

It will be interesting to read more as the story develops.