Information Minister Mahmoud Shammam told The Associated Press by telephone that Muatassim Qaddafi, his father’s former national security adviser, was dead.

The transitional government also said another Qaddafi son, his one-time heir apparent Seif Al-Islam, was captured wounded by revolutionary fighters and is in a hospital.

Libya’s justice minister Mohammad Al-Alagi said Qaddafi’s one-time heir apparent Seif Al-Islam was shot in the leg.