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Pakistani Taliban leader Omar Khalid Khorasani in 2011 (centre)
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The US was looking for him with a bounty of several million dollars, now the Pakistani Taliban have confirmed the death of their leader Omar Khalid Khorasani in a bomb attack.
Accordingly, Khorasani and two other commanders were killed in a targeted attack in the Afghan province of Paktika, as the militant Islamists announced in a WhatsApp group on Monday.
So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
$3 million bounty
The United States had placed a bounty of $3 million (around €3 million) on the native Pakistani, whose real name is Abdul Wali Mohmand.
He is said to have been close to the founders of the al-Qaeda terror network, Osama Bin Laden and Aiman al-Zawahiri.
Khorasani is said to have been behind the 2016 bomb attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore, which killed at least 70 people.
In 2017, there were reports that Khorasani was killed in a US drone strike.
However, these turned out to be untrue.
col/dpa