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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