Ex-head of Libya's anti-Kadhafi revolt dies of coronavirus

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Ex-head of Libya's anti-Kadhafi revolt dies of coronavirus
AFP•April 5, 2020

Mahmud Jibril, seen in this 2011 picture, headed the rebel National Transitional Council interim government that toppled Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi (AFP Photo/LEON NEAL)

Tripoli (AFP) - Mahmud Jibril, the former head of the Libyan rebel government that overthrew dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, died Sunday of the coronavirus, his party said.

Jibril, 68, died in Cairo where he had been hospitalised for two weeks, said Khaled al-Mrimi, secretary of the Alliance of National Forces party founded by Jibril in 2012.

He had been admitted to the Ganzouri Specialised Hospital in Cairo on March 21 after suffering from cardiac arrest and three days later tested positive for coronavirus, hospital director Hisham Wagdy said.

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