"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by coalition airstrikes on Raqqa on the fifth day of Ramadan," said a statement issued by al-Amaq. However, the US-led coalition has not commented on his death yet.
On June 9, PTI had reported that Baghdadi was injured in an air strike by coalition forces on one of the outfit's command headquarters close to the Syrian border in Iraq.
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