Moammar Gadhafi was killed by Libyan revolutionary fighters in his home town of Sirte Thursday, after weeks of fierce battle.

Gadhafi, who seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1969, was the longest-serving leader in Africa and the Arab world.

Don't shoot, don't shoot, were reportedly the last words of Gadhafi who was known for savage killing of dissidents during his 42-year reign in the North African country.

A rebel fighter claimed that Gadhafi was hiding in a drainage pipe in the centre of the city and pleaded, Don't shoot. However, his request fell on deaf ears and he met with a violent end, as it happened to some of the ruthless dictators of the recent limes.

Check out the pictures of the dictators who died a violent death.

Deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafis is seen in a vehicle on the way from Sirte to Misrata
Deceased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's is seen in a vehicle on the way from Sirte to Misrata Reuters
The body of former Iraq president Saddam Hussein appears in a frame from a new video posted on the Internet January 9, 2007. In the 27-second clandestine video, the body of Saddam Hussein is shown lying on a hospital trolley with a vivid red wound in his
The body of former Iraq president Saddam Hussein appears in a frame from a new video posted on the Internet January 9, 2007. In the 27-second clandestine video, the body of Saddam Hussein is shown lying on a hospital trolley with a vivid red wound in his throat after being hanged. Reuters
The body of Romania039s former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is seen this undated file photo of a television image. The graves of Ceausescu and his wife Elena were exhumed on July 21, 2010 to check whether they were truly buried there, according
The body of Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is seen this undated file photo of a television image. The graves of Ceausescu and his wife Elena were exhumed on July 21, 2010 to check whether they were truly buried there, according to their son-in-law. Ceausescu, who ruled from 1965 until he and Elena were captured and executed in 1989 at an army base near the town of Targoviste, were buried without fanfare, causing some to doubt whether the graves in Bucharest really contain their remains. Reuters
The French-made MAS sub-machine gun that killed Italy039s Benito Mussolini in 1945 is pictured in Tirana August 4, 2004.
The French-made MAS sub-machine gun that killed Italy's Benito Mussolini in 1945 is pictured in Tirana August 4, 2004. Reuters
A poster bearing the profile of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is shown plastered to a wall in central Rome April 28, 2002. The posters with the words quotThe world, without me, still needs the idea of me beneathquot, distributed hours before the a
A poster bearing the profile of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is shown plastered to a wall in central Rome April 28, 2002. The posters with the words "The world, without me, still needs the idea of me beneath", distributed hours before the anniversary of Mussolini's death, are placed next to ones signed by the National Front (the Italian hard right movement) encouraging Italian's to take a flower to the obelisk in the Mussolini forum Reuters
A man walks in front of photographs showing dictator Adolf Hitler at the press preview of the exhibition quotHilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechenquot Hitler and the German Nation and Crime at the Deutsche Historisches Museum Ger
A man walks in front of photographs showing dictator Adolf Hitler at the press preview of the exhibition "Hilter und die Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft und Verbrechen" (Hitler and the German Nation and Crime) at the Deutsche Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) in Berlin October 13, 2010 Reuters
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