Baitullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, is likely to have been killed, along with his wife and bodyguards, in a missile attack, Pakistani officials have said.
The country's interior minister said on Friday that Mehsud was suspected to have been killed earlier this week, but that there was no material confirmation of his death.
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