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Libya News Col Gaddafi dead: crowds gather to see dead dictator's body Only the frigid air of a cold storage unit united the dictator and his favourite son in death. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_8842274 [EMBED] Damien McElroy By Damien McElroy, Misurata 10:51PM BST 21 Oct 2011 Col Muammar Gaddafi and Muttasim, 34, were laid out on garish Chinese-made blankets in refrigerated meat containers a few miles apart in the port city of Misurata. The rebel fighters who had cornered the Mad Dog in his birthplace and the son responsible for orchestrating dead end resistance to the uprising, were euphoric. There were no qualms about how the Brother Leader had died, only the gleam of happiness in the eyes of people who had liberated the country. Hundreds queued around the whitewashed walls of the Tunisian Market on the outskirts of Misurata where Muammar Gaddafi was stretched out wearing only olive green trousers. In the rush towards the storage shed, the low murmur of Allahu akbar (God is great) became a roar. Inside, the crowd filed past in quick time. At once familiar but stripped of its tailored robes, the body of the colonel was, like the dictator in life, a shocking sight. The curly hair was thinner. Cast on one side, the puce face was dark and blotched. Clotted bullet wounds were visible, one in the head. The crowd moved as close as it could to the thin mattress but a pair of fatigued fighters with guns strapped on their shoulders pushed and pulled any stragglers through. Misurata fought a bitter battle to keep Gaddafi’s forces out after the February uprising and survivors claimed vindication for its suffering. “We were rats and now he is lying dead at our feet like a rat,” said Abdullah Saleh, a 24-year-old student who had lost one brother and had another lying paralysed in a German hospital as a result of the fighting. “How can we not be happy this day.” Ten miles north the metal door of a refrigeration container unit opened to The Daily Telegraph yesterday and revealed Mottasim Gaddafi, who had already acquired the blue sheen and brittle look of a piece of meat. His torso was bare, showing two bullet wounds to his chest and neck. 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So, too, are the questions over how Muttasim Gaddafi ended up there. Video circulating in Misurata showed him after he was captured laughing and exchanging remarks with his captors. He was sitting on a thin mattress smoking a cigarette. It is hard to imagine how he could have been killed in crossfire with loyalists or trying to escape. The entry wounds suggested that he was shot at close range. Mahmoud Jabril, the interim prime minister, rushed into Misurata for a visit. Pressed to respond to calls from the United Nations for an investigation into how the Gaddafis killed, he said an autopsy report would be handed over and the bodies respectfully buried over the weekend. “We are co-operating fully with the International Criminal Court on how to proceed in international law,” he said. In the event there were many witnesses to the surrender of father and son, if none to the moment of death. 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