Gaddafi's wife and three children 'flee Algeria'
Officials confirmed the late dictator's second wife, Safia, daughter Aisha, and sons Hannibal and Muhammad had fled the upmarket coastal region of Staoueli, close to Algiers, where they had lived since escaping from Libya in 2011.
Libyan officials are trying to locate Muammar Gaddafi's wife and three of his children who are missing from their refuge in neighbouring Algeria.
Officials confirmed the late dictator's second wife, Safia, daughter Aisha, and sons Hannibal and Muhammad had fled the upmarket coastal region of Staoueli, close to Algiers, where they had lived since escaping from Libya in 2011.
Libya's foreign minister Mohammed Abdelaziz said in Doha some of the family had moved to Oman. He said an official statement by the three countries involved - Libya, Algeria and Oman - would be issued soon.
Gaddafi's most prominent son, Saif al-Islam, remains in custody in the Libyan town of Zintan, and his brother Saadi is under house arrest in Niger.
Libya has already put Aisha and Hannibal on Interpol's red notice list, obliging member states to arrest them. Omani local daily Al-Shabiba said members of Gaddafi's family have been in Oman since October.
It cited a foreign ministry official saying that the Gulf state did not want to "show off" with an action prompted by "humanitarian" motives.