Libyan officials can confirm that Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been captured.

Saif al-Islam, 39, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity.

He was taken by fighters near the southern town of Obari and flown to the city of Zintan in the north. Saif al-Islam told a journalist he was well.

He is the last key Gaddafi family member to be seized or killed. Libya’s new prime minister says he will get a fair trial in Libya.

A commander of the Zintan militia, Wisam Dughaly, said Saif al-Islam had been captured along with several aides as they tried to smuggle him out to neighbouring Niger.

Fighters said they were taken without a shot being fired.

“At the beginning he was very scared. He thought we would kill him,” one of his captors, named as Ahmed Ammar, told Reuters news agency.

Libyan TV showed pictures of Saif al-Islam on the plane to Zintan with bandages on his left hand.

The capture leaves Gaddafi’s former intelligence chief, Abdallah Senoussi, as the only Libyan ICC suspect still at large.

Saif al-Islam had been on the run since NTC forces took Tripoli in August, six months into the uprising.

Colonel Gaddafi himself was killed on 20 October after being captured during the final battle for his hometown, Sirte.

The interim government in Libya has launched an inquiry into how he died.



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