Report: Senior Al Qaeda Leader Killed In Mali

French forces in Mali have killed Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, a commander of al Qaeda's north Africa wing, Algerian Ennahar TV says.

The station said 40 militants including Abu Zeid were killed in the region of Tigargara in northern Mali three days ago.

A French Defence Ministry official has declined to comment on the report.

Abu Zeid is a leading field commander of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group known as AQIM, and is regarded as one of its most ruthless operators.

He is believed to have executed British national Edwin Dyer in 2009 and a 78-year-old Frenchman, Michel Germaneau, in 2010.

British hostage Edwin Dyer held by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

Edwin Dyer was executed after four months in captivity

France launched an assault to retake Mali's vast northern desert region from AQIM and other Islamist rebels in January, after a plea from Mali's caretaker government.

The operation dislodged the rebels from several main towns they had occupied, driving them back into desert wilds.

AQIM has earned tens of millions of dollars in ransom payments for Western hostages taken to its strongholds in northern Mali.

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