Cardiff jihadist Reyaad Khan dies in Syria

A Cardiff man who is one of three from the city to have joined a jihadist group in Syria has died, the BBC reported.

Reyaad Khan, 21, was killed in a US drone strike at the end of August.

Officials from the Jalalia mosque in Riverside said the death had been confirmed by his family at Friday prayers.

Last year, he appeared in a video along with another man from Cardiff urging others to join Daesh.

The secretary of the Jalalia mosque, Mokaddus Miah, said prayers were said for him after being told by Reyaad Khan's father that he had died.

In July, there was widespread media speculation that Reyaad Khan had been killed in an earlier missile attack in Syria.

It is thought the former Cantonian High School and St David's College student, who was born in Penarth, travelled to Syria late in 2013.

He appeared in a 13-minute IS propaganda video in June 2014 alongside his friend Nasser Muthana, also from Cardiff, and Abdul Raqib Amin from Aberdeen.

His family in Cardiff later spoke of their shock and said he had been "brainwashed".

Source: MENA