A UK tabloid, The Sun, claims Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has fled Libya to Zimbabwe on a jet provided by President Robert Mugabe as rebels began the march on his home town.

An MDC-T source is said to have claimed that their spies saw Gaddafi arrive in the country on a Zimbabwe Air Force jet in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

They say Gaddafi was taken to a mansion in Harare’s Gunninghill suburb, where agents from his all-female bodyguard were apparently seen patrolling the grounds.

“There’s no doubt that Gaddafi is here as a ‘unique guest’ of Mugabe,” a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change told the Sun.