Deposed dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is to be buried in a "secret desert grave".
"He will be buried tomorrow in a simple burial with sheikhs attending the burial. It will be an unknown location in the open desert," a National Transition Council (NTC) official told Reuters. He said the decomposition of the body had reached the point where the "corpse cannot last any longer."
After his capture last week, rebels had put the body on show in a cold store while they argued over what to do with it, until its decay forced them to close the doors.
The killing of the 69-year-old in his hometown of Sirte brought to a close eight months of war in Libya, finally ending a nervous two-month hiatus since the motley rebel forces of the NTC overran the capital Tripoli.
NTC officials had said negotiations were going on with Gaddafi's tribal kinsmen from Sirte and within the interim leadership over where and how to dispose of the bodies, and on what the Misrata rebel leaders in possession of the corpses might receive in return for cooperation.
