Khadafy's son Khamis killed in suicide air strike on Tripoli compound

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Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy may be mourning the death of his son Khamis, according to reports.

Khamis Khadafy, 27, is the Libyan despot's sixth son. He has been leading his own brigade against the rebels since the uprising broke out, The Associated Press reported on Mar. 1.The Libyan government is denying reports that Moammar Khadafy's son was killed in an air attack in Tripoli on Saturday night.

According to reports on NBN TV in Lebanon, Khamis died when a Libyan pilot conducted a suicide air mission, crashing his plane into into the Bab al-Aziziya compound where the dictator's son was holed up with relatives.

Khamis is said to have died in the hospital of extensive burn wounds, according to the reports.

But the Khadafy regime denied the story on Monday, calling it "a nonsensical piece of news."

Khamis was expelled from Madrid's IE business school earlier this month for his "links to the attacks against the Libyan population," a spokeswoman for the school told Bloomberg News.