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Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's son Khamis may have been killed, a television network has reported - as two other sons were confirmed captured and sources said a third had also been detained.
The rebels are in control of the city's Green Square - but the whereabouts of Col Gaddafi himself are unknown.
News organisation Al Jazeera said unnamed sources believed two bodies found could be those of Khamis and Col Gaddafi's intelligence chief Abdallah Senussi.
Earlier, the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed two other sons, Saif al Islam and his older brother Mohammed, had been detained.
Al Arabiya television reported that a third son, Saadi, had also been captured.
The reports emerged after a day of quick progress by the rebel force, pushing along the main coastal highway from the western town of Zawiyah to Tripoli.
Saif, along with his father, is wanted for crimes against humanity and in June, the ICC issued arrest warrants for them.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said: "It is very important to make clear there is an obligation to surrender Saif to the ICC in accordance with the Security Council resolution."
Saif was reportedly captured in a western tourist village of Libya, while Mohammed surrendered to rebel forces and is under house arrest.
Sky News foreign affairs correspondent Lisa Holland, who has met and interviewed Saif several times this year , said she believed he would be finding the situation in Tripoli "very hard".
"I think he never believed it would come to this," she said.
"He was the guy who courted the West. He brought Tripoli and Libya in from the cold after the Lockerbie years."
The Al Jazeera network spoke to Mohammed after his surrender but the interview was interrupted by gunfire before the phone line dropped out.
The head of the National Transitional Council told the network Mohammed had not been hurt in the incident.
Before he was cut off, Col Gaddafi's son said what was happening in Libya was "very upsetting".
He said his house had been besieged, but the rebels who captured him were cordial and did not harm him.
After the rebels reached the capital, Colonel Gaddafi made a defiant speech, which was broadcast on Libyan state television.
"The women who trained to use weapons should go out and use their weapons," he said.
"You're all armed in Tripoli, so there should be no excuse - get out."
He went on: "How can you allow the city of Tripoli to sit under colonialism once again after the revolution and freedom?
"How can the armed people allow a group of mercenaries, traitors and rats to open the way for colonialism in the city of Tripoli?"
The rebels are in control of the city's Green Square - but the whereabouts of Col Gaddafi himself are unknown.
News organisation Al Jazeera said unnamed sources believed two bodies found could be those of Khamis and Col Gaddafi's intelligence chief Abdallah Senussi.
Earlier, the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed two other sons, Saif al Islam and his older brother Mohammed, had been detained.
Al Arabiya television reported that a third son, Saadi, had also been captured.
The reports emerged after a day of quick progress by the rebel force, pushing along the main coastal highway from the western town of Zawiyah to Tripoli.
Saif, along with his father, is wanted for crimes against humanity and in June, the ICC issued arrest warrants for them.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said: "It is very important to make clear there is an obligation to surrender Saif to the ICC in accordance with the Security Council resolution."
Saif was reportedly captured in a western tourist village of Libya, while Mohammed surrendered to rebel forces and is under house arrest.
Sky News foreign affairs correspondent Lisa Holland, who has met and interviewed Saif several times this year , said she believed he would be finding the situation in Tripoli "very hard".
"I think he never believed it would come to this," she said.
"He was the guy who courted the West. He brought Tripoli and Libya in from the cold after the Lockerbie years."
The Al Jazeera network spoke to Mohammed after his surrender but the interview was interrupted by gunfire before the phone line dropped out.
The head of the National Transitional Council told the network Mohammed had not been hurt in the incident.
Before he was cut off, Col Gaddafi's son said what was happening in Libya was "very upsetting".
He said his house had been besieged, but the rebels who captured him were cordial and did not harm him.
After the rebels reached the capital, Colonel Gaddafi made a defiant speech, which was broadcast on Libyan state television.
"The women who trained to use weapons should go out and use their weapons," he said.
"You're all armed in Tripoli, so there should be no excuse - get out."
He went on: "How can you allow the city of Tripoli to sit under colonialism once again after the revolution and freedom?
"How can the armed people allow a group of mercenaries, traitors and rats to open the way for colonialism in the city of Tripoli?"
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