Mahmoud al-Shammam , the National Transitional Council 's information minister , told CNN that a funeral would be postponed for a few days just in case officials from the International Criminal Court -- which had an arrest warrant out for Gadhafi for alleged crimes against humanity -- wanted to see the body firsthand . Moammar Gadhafi was in a bus heading out of Tripoli that was hit by NATO . He survived and hid in a drainage pipe . He was alive when he was killed , by anti - Gadhafi forces . A human rights investigator says his brutal end is a reminder on Libya 's first day of democracy .
Moammar Gadhafi was in a bus heading out of Tripoli that was hit by NATO . He survived and hid in a drainage pipe . He was alive when he was killed , by anti - Gadhafi forces . A human rights investigator says his brutal end is a reminder on Libya 's first day of democracy .