White House confident Qaddafi is dead

Aides to President Obama are confident deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has been killed, a White House official told CBS News.

Mr. Obama is expected to address reporters at the White House at 2:00 p.m. ET to discuss Qaddafi's apparent death.

Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Qaddafi was killed in fighting around his hometown Thursday.

Libyan fighters captured Sirte, Qaddafi's hometown and the last bastion of loyalist resistance, earlier Thursday. Shortly after, reports of Qaddafi's capture and subsequent death began to swirl.

The Associated Press contributed to this report