Gaddafi Family Flee To Algeria

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The wife and three children of fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are in Algeria, Algerian officials say.

A foreign ministry statement said Col Gaddafi's wife Safia, daughter Ayesha and sons Muhammad and Hannibal left Libya early on Monday.

Algeria's UN ambassador said they were received on humanitarian grounds.

Meanwhile rebels said they had uncovered four mass graves in recent days.

The BBC's Andrew Hosken, who visited one of the sites in south-east Tripoli, said they were believed to contain the corpses of army officers who refused to fight for Col Gaddafi.

The site is near the barracks of the army brigade headed by Col Gaddafi's son Khamis, who rebels said may have been killed in a clash near Bani Walid.

The reports came as Libyan rebels were trying to overcome the pockets of resistance by Gaddafi loyalists, and preparing to advance on Col Gaddafi's birthplace, Sirte.

Col Gaddafi's own whereabouts are unknown.