Militant Chief Majid al-Majid 'dies in Lebanon'

Majid al-Majid, the commander of the Al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, has died in custody in a hospital in Lebanon, state media said.

Majid al-Majid, a Saudi who is on Saudi Arabia's most-wanted-terrorists list, was arrested in Lebanon recently.

Lebanese security sources said Majid al-Majid died in a military hospital in Beirut on Saturday, a day after going into a coma suffering from kidney failure.

It was only on Friday that the Lebanese authorities said that DNA tests had confirmed his identity.

Defence Minister Fayez Ghosn earlier confirmed the commander was being held by army intelligence in Beirut and was "being interrogated in secret". He refused to say when and how the arrest took place.