‘Belmokhtar killed’ by soldiers in Mali

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The announcement came amid continued fighting in the mountains of northern Mali.
The reported death of Belmokhtar was the second time Chad said it had killed a leading Islamist militant in Mali in recent days — after the reported death of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) commander Abdelhamid Abou Zeid.

There has been no confirmation of the deaths from other governments or Islamist sources. If the killings are confirmed, the French-led military coalition fighting in northern Mali will have eliminated the Sahel region’s two historical Al-Qaeda leaders and decapitated the Islamist insurgency in Mali. — AFP.