Saif al-arab and 3 of Qaddafi's grandchildren are killed by NATO air strike on his home.

@JawedZ10Jawed Zouari

Gaddafi escapes death but his youngest son Saif al-arab and 3 of Qaddafi's grandchildren are killed by NATO air strike onhis home.

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TRIPOLI, Libya - A NATO missile strike killed Muammar Qaddafi's youngest son and three grandchildren on Saturday but the Libyan leader survived, a government spokesman said.

A U.S. official said there is as yet no independent confirmation of the report, according to CBS News correspondent David Martin. 

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A U.N. spokesman said that the U.N. Secretary General has been informed by his staff of the report but at this point did not have independent confirmation of the information, reports CBS News U.N. correspondent Pamela Falk. 

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Qaddafi and his wife were in the Tripoli house of his 29-year-old son, Seif al-Arab Qaddafi, when it was hit by at least one bomb dropped from a NATO warplane, according to Libyan spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. "The leader himself is in good health," Ibrahim said. "He was not harmed. The wife is also in good health." Seif al-Arab Qaddafi was the sixth son of Qaddafi and brother of the better known Seif al-Islam Qaddafi. The younger Qaddafi had spent much of his time in Germany in recent years. 

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 "The attack resulted in the martyrdom of brother Seif al-Arab Qaddafi, 29 years old, and three of the leader's grandchildren," Ibrahim said. He said Seif al-Arab had studied at a German university but had not yet completed his studies.