DHAKA: A leader of the Islamic State (IS) has been killed in an air strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Residents and a local medical source said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.

They said Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, who they described as the radical militant group’s leader in Mosul, was killed with his driver when their car was hit in a western district of the city on Wednesday afternoon.

The ultra-hardline IS swept through northern Iraq in June almost unopposed by Iraq’s army, consolidating on gains made in the country’s Sunni heartland region of Anbar.

Hamdouni was buried later on Wednesday. Large numbers of supporters, some carrying black IS flags, attended the funeral, one source said.

BDST: 2106 HRS, NOV 20, 2014