The bodies of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, his son Muatassim and a top aide have been buried in secret in the desert, Libyan officials say.
A National Transitional Council (NTC) official told the BBC the bodies were buried at dawn in an unknown location.
This follows days of apparent uncertainty among the new leadership about what to do with the bodies.
Colonel Gaddafi's family wanted the bodies to be buried outside the former leader's hometown of Sirte.
But officials from the NTC had expressed a preference for a secret burial.
The NTC's Guma Al Gamaty confirmed the burial to the BBC.
An NTC official had earlier told Reuters news agency that Col Gaddafi would be buried in a "simple" ceremony with "sheikhs attending" on Tuesday.
"It will be an unknown location in the open desert," he said, adding that a burial was needed because decomposition of the body had reached the point where the "corpse cannot last any longer".
Witnesses reported that the bodies of the three men were removed overnight from the meat storage warehouse in Misrata where they had been on display.
A security guard at the warehouse confirmed the move to the Arabic television station al-Jazeera.
"Our job is finished," Salem al Mohandes said. "[Gaddafi] was transferred and the military council of Misrata took him away to an unknown location.
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