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Tunisia denies reports Gadhafi's wife, daughter fled to country

The Tunisian Interior Ministry was quoted Wednesday as denying that the wife and daughter of Moammar Gadhafi fled to the country.
/ Source: Reuters

The Tunisian Interior Ministry was quoted Wednesday by pan-Arab television channels as denying that the wife and daughter of Moammar Gadhafi crossed into Tunisia several days ago.

Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya said the spokesmen had denied that any members of the Gadhafi family were in Tunisia.

A Tunisian security source told Reuters earlier Wednesday that Gadhafi's second wife, Safia, and his daughter Aisha had entered Tunisia with a Libyan delegation.

Al Jazeera quoted a spokesman as saying Tunisia would arrest any members of the Gadhafi family should they enter the country under a U.N.-imposed travel ban.

Tunisian radio channel Mosaiqu reported that one of the leader's sons, Mohammad, had also crossed to Tunisia and that Gadhafi family members are staying in Djerba, a tourist island across the Libya-Tunisia border that former government officials have used as a refuge since defecting from the regime.

An airstrike on a wealthy residential district in Tripoli last month killed Gadhafi's youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three of his grandchildren, according to the Libyan government.

Gadhafi had eight biological children, seven of them sons, according to the BBC.