Algerian Army Claims One of French Hiker's Murderers Killed

The Algerian army has killed one of the jihadist kidnappers responsible for the beheading of French hiker, Hervé Gourdel. It said the unnamed jihadist was killed in an anti-terrorist operation in October.

The Islamist jihadi organisation Jund al-Khilafa, which is allied to the Islamic State armed group, killed Gourdel in September, following French air strikes in Iraq.

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