BAGHDAD, Nov 12: Ezzat Ibrahim al Duri, the number two in former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s government, died on Friday. There was a 10-million-dollar US bounty outstanding on Mr Duri, 63, who was said to be gravely ill with leukaemia. He was erroneously reported to have been captured in September last year.

Mr Duri was the most senior former Iraqi leader still at large since Saddam Hussein was captured in Dec 2003.

He commanded an entire army corps despite never having attended a military institution or school of higher learning.—AFP