UPDATE: The Associated Press reports that Muammar Qaddafi's corpse is being kept in a commercial freezer in a shopping center in the city of Misrata.
It is being kept there while Libyan leaders figure out where and when to bury the former dictator.
An AP correspondent was given a look at the blood-streaked corpse: "The body, stripped to the waist and wearing beige trousers, was laid on a bloodied mattress on the floor of an emptied-out room-sized freezer where restaurants and stores in the center normally keep perishables."
UPDATE Friday 9:39 a.m.: The burial of Muammar Qaddafi's body has been delayed to allow for a further investigation into how the deposed Libyan leader was killed, and to give officials more time to figure out where they should bury the body, Libya's interim government said Friday.
The Associated Press reports that National Transitional Council leaders had originally said that they would bury Qaddafi on Friday in accordance with Islamic traditions, although those plans are now on hold after the U.N. human rights office called for an investigation into the circumstances of the 69-year-old's death.
A spokesman for the U.N. panel set up earlier this year to investigate abuses in Libya said it wanted to take a closer look at how Qaddafi was killed, but that it was too early to tell if the panel would push for a formal investigation at the national or international level.
The spokesman, Rupert Colville, told reporters in Geneva that there remain questions about whether Qaddafi was killed during a skirmish between his security detail and the revolutionaries, as Libya's prime minister suggested Thursday, or whether he was executed.
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