Islamic State chief al-Baghdadi injured in air strike: Report

June 10, 2016 16:18

Islamic State's self-proclaimed chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been wounded in an air strike by the coalition forces, media reports said on Friday.

Baghdadi was travelling in a convoy with other senior ISIS members when they were hit by an air strike, the express.co.uk reported.

Citing local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province, the Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya also reported that Baghdadi and other leaders of the Islamist group were wounded on Thursday in a coalition bombing.

"The planes of the international coalition yesterday bombed a location where there is a base of Isis members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh," the report said quoting an Iraqi source.

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