Two top Islamist militants in Somalia, including one with a $5m (£3.2m) US bounty on his head, have been killed by members of their own extremist group.
The pair - Ibrahim Haji Jama Mead, better known as Al Afghani, and Abul Hamid Hashi Olhayi - were both co-founders of al Shabaab which is linked to al Qaeda.
Afghani, who was wanted by the US and got his nickname due to his training and fighting with militants in Afghanistan, opposed the command of top al Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane.
Godane, who America has offered a $7m (£4.6m) bounty for, ordered Afghani and at least a dozen other leaders to be arrested earlier this month, reported the AFP news agency, citing security sources.
Al Shabaab gunmen also killed Olhayi, named as another senior commander.
"We have informed their widows of their deaths, as they must now wear the clothes of mourning," the group's spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.
The deaths show the splits in the long-running insurgency to topple the internationally-backed government.
But the killings also signalled Godane's efforts to sweep away opposition to his command and cement his more radical leadership.
Family members - including Afghani's sister - said the pair were arrested and then executed, but al Shabaab said they were killed during a gun battle.
"We deny reports that the men were killed after capture," Musab told AFP.
"The two men were killed in a shoot-out when they were resisting arrest on court orders."
Al Shabaab is fractured into multiple rival factions, some based along clan lines and others ideological.
Some are more attracted by a nationalist agenda to oust foreign forces from Somalia, while others - including Godane - have more international jihadi ambitions.
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