Sirte (Sunatimes) Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been killed in Sirte, reports say.

Libyan National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid was quoted as saying that Gaddafi was wounded in both legs near his hometown of Sirte at down on Thursday.

Al-Jazeera displayed Gaddafi’s heavily bloodied body.

NTC official said thebody of the former Libyan leaderwas taken to a location which is being kept secret for security reasons.

Reports say Gaddafi’s head of armed forces Abu Bakr Younis Jabr has also been killed in Sirte.

NTC commander told Al-Jazeera that former spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi’s fallen government Moussa Ibrahim, as well as Gaddafi’s cousin Ahmed Ibrahim has been arrested in Sirte.

Colonel Gaddafi was toppled in August after 42 years in power.

NATO and the US state department said it cannot confirm the reports of Gaddafi’s death.

Meanwhile in Benghazi, crowds gathered in the streets to start celebrating thereports of Gaddafi’s death.

By Dahir Alasow