Don't shoot! Muammar Gaddafi begged for his life after being dragged from a drain. Seconds later he was summarily executed

David Williams Daily Mail 10/20/2011 14:38

Colonel Gaddafi was executed by a frenzied mob of rebel fighters after pleading: 'Don't shoot, don't shoot!' The final humiliation for the man who had so brutally ruled Libya for 42 years came when he was hauled from his hiding place in a sewer. Shocking video clearly showed the broken 69-year-old tyrant was alive as fighters, waving their guns in the air, threw him on to the bonnet of a jeep.

Pleading: Muammar Gaddafi pleaded with his captors for his life after he was found cowering in a storm drain

Paraded: Gaddafi struggled with his captors in video footage taken by rebel fighters after he was captured

Terrified: Gaddafi pleaded for his life after he was captured by rebel fighters

Fear: Becoming increasingly desperate, Gaddafi asked a rebel fighter 'What did I ever do to you'

Chaotic: Gaddafi was pushed around by rebel fighters, one of whom filmed the incident on a mobile telephone

Wounded and apparently dazed, Gaddafi appeared deluded to the end, asking his captors: 'What did I do to you?'

Moments after he begged for his life he was shot 'like a dog in the street'.

Another video captured his bloodied body being dragged through the streets of his home city of Sirte, to be paraded later before celebrating crowds in the nearby port town of Misrata.

Confirmation of the death sparked wild scenes of celebration across Libya with tens of thousands taking to the streets.

Celebratory gunfire rang out across the capital, Tripoli. Cars honked their horns and people embraced each other.

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