Overview
- The 53-year-old was shot inside his home in Zintan, according to the attorney general’s office.
- His political team said four masked men disabled security cameras before killing him during a break-in.
- Thousands attended his burial in Bani Walid, where mourners carried portraits and waved plain green flags linked to the former regime.
- Investigators are working to identify suspects and the assailants remain at large, forensic findings having confirmed death by gunfire.
- Libya’s divided authorities responded as Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah denounced the attack, while unverified claims from foreign outlets and Russia’s SVR alleged UK and French roles without independent corroboration.