Libya's new leaders have announced Muammar Gaddafi will be buried and an official probe will be held into his death, Al Arabiya network reports.
Libya's National Transitional Council says it has decided to bury Gaddafi and his son Mutassim on Tuesday in a "secret place in the desert".
The announcement came hours after national council chief Mustafa Abdul Jalil said the transitional leadership would lead the formal investigation into Gaddafi's death, after receiving conflicting reports on how the deposed leader died.
Some reports claim the former dictator was killed after being caught in crossfire, however others allege he was executed by anti-Gaddafi fighters.
According to GlobalPost, a new video of Gaddafi's capture has surfaced that shows a Libyan rebel may have attempted to sodomise the ousted leader.
An analysis of the video obtained by news organisation GlobalPost from a rebel fighter who recorded the moment when Gaddafi was first captured shows another rebel fighter, whose identity is unknown, trying to insert some kind of stick or knife into Gaddafi's rear end.
GlobalPost says there is some question as to whether the instrument was a knife from the end of a gun, which Libyans call a Bicketti, or a utility tool known as a Becker Knife and Tool, which is popularly known as a BKT.
In other video clips that have emerged of his capture, Gaddafi can be seen injured but alive. Later he is seen with what appears to be gunshot wounds to his head and chest.
EXECUTION CLAIMS
Meanwhile, the discovery of 53 decaying bodies in Sirte, final bastion of Libya's ousted dictator Moammar Gaddafi, suggests some of his loyalists were executed, a rights group said.
"We found 53 decomposing bodies, apparently Kadhafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte," said Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch (HRW), who investigated the killings.
"Some had their hands bound behind their backs when they were shot," he added.
HRW's investigator found the bodies on Sunday at the Hotel Mahari in District 2 of Sirte, an "area of the city that was under the control of anti-Kadhafi fighters from Misrata before the killings took place."
"The bodies were clustered together, apparently where they had been killed, on the grass in the sea-view garden of the hotel," HRW said in a statement.
An AFP reporter at the weekend found 60 corpses on the lawn of the Al-Mahari hospital and noted that many of the victims had been killed execution-style, a bullet to the head. Some had been bound hand and foot.
NTC fighters told AFP at the time that the hospital had been used as a makeshift prison by Gaddafi's men who, they charged, carried out the executions before abandoning the place.
Similar atrocities were carried out in Tripoli, with at least 50 charred skeletons, apparently prisoners executed by Gaddafi's fleeing forces, being found after the capital fell to National Transitional Council (NTC) fighters late August.
According to the Geneva Conventions, abuse of prisoners under any circumstance is not permissible.
