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CAIRO — The leader of al-Qaeda’s offshoot in North Africa said in a message broadcast Sunday that the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April.
In a recording broadcast on Al-Jazeera, Abdelmalek Droukdel said the group killed the 78-year-old French hostage, Michel Germaneau, in retaliation for the killing of six al-Qaeda members in a recent raid by Mauritanian forces aided by the French military.
