The Libyan Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, died ...

Libyan Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, convicted only for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 in Scotland, died on Sunday in Tripoli at the age of 60 years died of cancer nearly three years after his release in 2009, when doctors had given him three months to live.

According Abdelhakim his brother, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi died shortly after 1:00 p.m. (1100 GMT), in her home in Damascus Avenue, in a residential area in central Tripoli.

He was hospitalized last month for a blood transfusion in a ?very critical?, before returning home to be with his family, who said while Abdelbaset days were ?numbered?.

Sunday early afternoon, the family was reunited in the house and prepared to receive condolences, while the street could be heard weeping relatives, according to an AFP correspondent.

?He died and left us with this sense of injustice,? lamented Abdelhakim Megrahi denouncing a ?political matter and information? in that his brother was ?the scapegoat? of the old regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

?Everybody knows that the Gaddafi regime put his mistakes on the backs of others?, he added AFP.

?All the darkness of this world will not hide the flame (?) the truth,? said Mohamed on his side, another brother of Abdel Basset.

?In the past decade, more than ten babies born in the family of Abdel Basset Megrahi. One day these babies will get an apology from the world,? he further said.

agency quoted Libyan Lana, one of her sisters said that the state of his brother had deteriorated yesterday (Saturday) and qu?Abdelbaset ?was not able to speak or recognize anyone? among his entourage .

She said the funeral would be held Monday afternoon.

Born 1 April 1952 in Tripoli, married with five children, Megrahi was sentenced in 2001 to life imprisonment for his involvement in the explosion of a Boeing 747 of Pan Am over Lockerbie, Scotland, who had killed 270 people.

He was released by the Scottish justice for humanitarian grounds in 2009, doctors diagnosed with terminal cancer.

His release had raised an outcry, especially among families of the victims, especially since it seemed more dying in his triumphant arrival in Tripoli, and he has survived so far, despite the doctors had given him three months to live.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday that it had to ?remember? the Lockerbie victims, after the death of Libyan.

?Today we must remember the 270 people who lost their lives in this terrible attack,? said David Cameron in the British media in Chicago, where there is a NATO summit.

For cons, the father of one of the Lockerbie victims, Briton Jim Swire, convinced of the innocence of Megrahi, expressed his sadness at the death of the latter.

?This is a sad time, I think. I am convinced for years that this man had nothing to do with the murder of my daughter, ?said the BBC Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the explosion of Pan Am flight

? He was in extreme pain and death has at least served to end his suffering, ?he said.

? So from now maybe we will be able to try to find who killed my daughter and all these people, ?he said Swire.

In 2003, the Gaddafi regime had officially recognized its responsibility in the attack and then paid $ 2.7 billion in compensation to families victims.

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