As ‘the acceptable face of the Gaddafi family’, he had a magnetic effect on politicians and bankers who wanted to deal with oil-rich Libya

The eldest surviving son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, has been killed, according to his lawyer Khaled el-Zaydi, media...

The 53-year-old, who was once widely seen as the second most powerful person in Libya, was killed on Tuesday according to Libyan media.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi had been considered the number two in Libya before the 2011 death of his father, Muammar Gaddafi.

Saif al-Islam was shot dead outside his residence, sources close to the Gaddafi family said

Saif al-Islam, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed in the west of the North African country.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi’s political team say ‘four masked men’ stormed his house in Zintan

The death was confirmed by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's lawyer, Khaled al-Zaidi

Dictator’s second son, a key figure in post-2011 Libyan politics, reportedly shot dead at home by masked assailants

As ‘the acceptable face of the Gaddafi family’, he had a magnetic effect on politicians and bankers who wanted to deal with oil-rich Libya

Death of former dictator's son removes symbolic alternative to Libya's entrenched political deadlock, analysts say.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, shot dead on Tuesday, appealed to ‘a nostalgia for a past that is remembered as more secure’

Gaddafi’s son had significant symbolic weight and his assassination could alter Libya’s already turbulent security and political landscape, analysts say

Authorities investigating killing of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, once seen as de-facto PM under father's iron-fisted rule.