Bodies of Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim lay on a mattress on the floor of a cold room in Misrata yesterday and a picture of a young Libyan fighter, inset, who claims he shot the strongman twice wounding him badly.Photo: AFP

A new video that apparently shows the moment that tyrant was pulled from his hole and led to a jeep may shed light on how he came to be killed.
The shaky mobile phone footage shows a dozen jeering rebels surrounding the bloodied tyrant, who is hoarse and barely audible.
Gaddafi says: 'What are you doing? It's not allowed in Islamic law. What you are doing is forbidden.
'What you're doing is wrong, guys. Do you know what is right or wrong?'
The young men scream 'Muammar, you dog!' as their former leader wipes at blood covering the left side of his head, neck and left shoulder.
Gaddafi gestures to the young men to be patient, and says 'What's going on?' as he wipes fresh blood from his temple and glances at his palm.
A young fighter later is shown carrying a boot and screaming, 'This is Muammar's shoe! This is Muammar's shoe! Victory! Victory!'
'Keep him alive, keep him alive!' someone shouts.
Another rebel screams: 'God is great. God is omnipotent.' And as Gaddafi begs for mercy, a fighter says: 'Shut up, you dog.' The recording then ends.
Gun fire from an automatic-rile is heard before the recording ends. The Daily Mirror claimed today that these were the fatal bullets. However, there were only signs on his corpse of wounds from handguns and the time of death is understood to have been less than an hour later.
Gaddafi's son Mutassim, who commanded the defence of Sirte, was also killed after capture.
Yesterday his body, scarred by numerous cigarette burns, was laid out beside his father's in a makeshift mortuary at an old meat store in the coastal city of Misrata.
NTC leaders are adamant he was shot in the head when he was caught "in crossfire" between his supporters and new regime fighters soon after his capture.
"There have been rumours flying around since the killing of Gaddafi, after images were released, claiming that our revolutionaries slaughtered him," a senior NTC official said.
But one NTC minister in the Libyan capital Tripoli told the Mail yesterday that officials had been saying for weeks that Gaddafi would be shot if cornered a claim at odds with the official rebel line.
'He took their blood they had to take his,' the senior minister said. 'We couldn't have stopped them even if we had tried. It was their due after seeing their brothers killed.'
Dr Ibrahim Tika, who examined the bodies in Misrata yesterday, said: 'There was a bullet and that was the primary reason for his death, it penetrated his gut .?.?. then there was another bullet that went in and out of his head.'
The medical evidence appears to support the claims of fighters involved in Gaddafi's capture who said in the immediate aftermath that he had been shot in the stomach.