Reports claim that another senior leader of the al Qaeda, Younis al Mauretani, has been captured.
New Delhi: Al Qaeda's top leadership continues to crumble with US officials saying that the organisations chief of operations in Pakistan Abu Hafs al-Shahri was killed in the country's north-west on Thursday.
Al-Shahri was killed in the Waziristan region. The militant collaborated closely with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a report said quoting an unnamed official.
Reports claim that another senior leader of the al Qaeda, Younis al Mauretani, has been captured.
US has launched an aggressive drone strike campaign in Pakistan's north-west region after Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2 in Abbottabad.
With additional information from IANS.
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