SYDNEY: Canberra was working to verify reports that two of Australia’s most wanted Islamic State group fighters, notorious for being pictured holding severed heads, have been killed.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation cited people close to the families of Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar as saying the pair died in fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the past week.
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