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It is "very probable" that Al-Qaeda-linked militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in a US air strike, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday, but he admitted he could not be sure. Belmokhtar is an Algerian believed to have been behind a number of attacks, including the 2013 siege of an Algerian gas plant in which 38 hostages, mostly Westerners, were killed. The militant group Belmokhtar leads, the North African Al-Murabitoun, denied he had died in a statement released Thursday through the Mauritania-based Al-Akhbar news agency.

 

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