British terror suspect thought dead

Last Updated: Saturday, 22 November 2008, 13:01 GMT

British terror suspect thought dead

A British man suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic jets is believed to have been killed by a US missile strike, officials in Pakistan said.

Relatives of Rashid Rauf, who escaped from custody in Pakistan last year, were said to be distraught at reports that he was among five people killed by the attack in the tribal North Waziristan region.

The British Foreign Office said it was still investigating the reports and could not confirm whether Rauf, who is originally from Birmingham, had been killed.

But Pakistan's government confirmed that Rashid Rauf and a Saudi militant called Abu Zubair al-Masri were the apparent targets of the pre-dawn strike near the border with Afghanistan.

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