英语新闻阅读：利比亚前领导人卡扎菲在苏尔特被打死

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　　Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is dead.
        　　Libyan provisional government forces killed Gadhafi in a final assault on
his coastal hometown of Sirte on Thursday, after launching an uprising in
February against his four-decade autocratic rule.
        　　The prime minister of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mahmoud
Jibril, confirmed Gadhafi's death at a news conference in Tripoli. He also said
it is time for Libyans to build a new, united Libya.
        　　The United States says it received confirmation of the former leader's
death from Libyan officials. Gadhafi was 69 years old.
        　　Video footage broadcast on global television networks showed Gadhafi's
bloodied corpse lying on the ground, surrounded by NTC forces who later took the
body to the western city of Misrata.
        　　The circumstances of Gadhafi's killing were not clear. NTC fighters said
Gadhafi was found hiding under ground and was shot and killed as they crushed
remaining resistance by his loyalists in Sirte. NATO said its warplanes also
attacked two vehicles of pro-Gadhafi forces that were maneuvering around Sirte
on Thursday.
        　　Jubilant crowds filled the streets of Tripoli to celebrate Gadhafi's
demise. NTC fighters also celebrated the fall of Sirte by firing shots into the
air and hoisting Libya's new national flag over what was the last stronghold of
Gadhafi loyalists.