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TUNIS, June 3, (APP/AFP) – The brother of a shepherd whose
beheading by jihadists outraged Tunisia has himself been found dead after being abducted, media reports and the defence minister’s spokesman said on Saturday.
Khalifa Soltani was kidnapped on Friday in the Mount Mghilla area,
and a security sweep recovered his body after a “terrorist group” announced his abduction, Belhassen Oueslati told AFP.
Oueslati did not provide further details about the victim, but media
reports said he was the brother of Mabrouk Soltani, a 16-year-old shepherd who was decapitated on November 13, 2015.
The Tunisian branch of the Islamic State group, Jund al-Khilafa
(soldiers of the caliphate), claimed that killing, accusing the boy of betraying their movements to the army.
Although the circumstances of the latest death are not yet known, his
killing comes less than a week after a top jihadist was shot and six others
arrested in the central Kasserine region’s Mount Salloum area near the border with Algeria.
The interior ministry said on Tuesday the six belonged to “sleeper