BAMAKO (Reuters) - French air strikes in northern Mali have killed Islamist militant Oumar Ould Hamaha, a jihadist with a $3 million (1 million pounds) U.S. government bounty on his head, Malian military sources said on Friday.
Hamaha, known as 'Red Beard' because of his henna-dyed whiskers, became a leading figure in the Islamist coalition that seized control of northern Mali in April 2012 after drifting among armed Muslim groups in the Sahara over the last decade.
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