TRIPOLI: Muammar Qaddafi’s son and heir apparent Seif Al-Islam has been captured in Libya’s southern desert, Libya’s interim justice minister and other officials told.
They said Seif Al-Islam and several bodyguards, but no other senior figures from the ousted administration, had been taken near the town of Obari by fighters based in the western mountain town of Zintan.
The younger Qaddafi was in good health, Justice Minister Mohammed Al-Alagi added.
Bashir Al-Tlayeb of the Zintan brigades told a press conference that Seif Al-Islam was captured with two aides trying to smuggle him out to neighboring Niger.
The commander said that Qaddafi’s son had been taken to the Libyan town of Zintan, and would not comment on where Seif Al-Islam might be tried.