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Photograph: Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images
Apologies - it is a graphic image. We cannot confirm that it shows his capture.
1.37pm: Nick Hopkins, the Guardian's defence correspondent, sends this:
The convoy in which is is thought Gaddafi was travelling was hit by a Nato airstrike at 6am, British time.
Two Nato aircraft bombed the vehicles as they fled Sirte. Neither were British planes, though two Tornado ground attack aircraft were on surveillance and reconnaissance missions at the time.
There is still no confirmation from here that Gaddafi was in the convoy, but that is what is being reported in Libya.
1.33pm: Killed, captured or whereabouts unconfirmed? Here's a quick guide to who is saying what about Gaddafi at this stage:
Killed: NTC commander Abdel-Basit Haroun said Gaddafi was killed when an airstrike hit a convoy trying to flee Sirte. National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. "There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.
NTC spokesman in Misrata Abdullah Berrassali told Sky News: "Gaddafi is dead, absolutely dead. He was shot in both legs and a bullet in the head. The body will be arriving in Misrata any minute now." Libyan TV and al-Jazeera are also reporting that Gaddafi is dead.
Captured: Misrata Military Council, one of the multiple command groups for the new government, says its fighters captured Gadhafi in Sirte.
Unconfirmed: A spokesman for Libya's transitional government, Jalal al-Gallal, and its military spokesman Abdul-Rahman Busin say the reports have not been confirmed. Nato and the US state department could not confirm any of the reports.
1.31pm: Nato is confirming its aircraft struck pro-Gaddafi military vehicles near Sirte today.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, says she can't confirm his capture or dead but if it is true she would breathe a sigh of relief as one more obstacle was removed.
1.26pm: An NTC spokesman is telling Sky News that Gaddafi is dead and the body is arriving in Misrata "any minute now". We cannot confirm this.
1.24pm: It is claimed that this image, from a mobile phone, shows the arrest of Gaddafi.