How Muammar Gaddafi Died

Muammar Gaddafi died at the age of 69 on October 20, 2011. He was killed near his hometown of  Sirte(BBC). NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, tracked down Gaddafi until he was at Sirte. After seeing that a convoy of vehicles, which Gaddafi was in, trying to escape the city the rebels went after him. A French airstrike fired at the vehicles. Then a lot of the people in the cars, including Gaddafi, tried to escape. The Libyan rebels went after Gaddafi and found him. As soon as they caught him they started to attack him. Some of the rebels recorded as they tortured Gaddafi. He was shot dead shortly after. He was found in pipe to the side of the road (Barr, Faille, Johnson). This is how Muammar Gaddafi was killed.