Yemeni security forces have killed a key al-Qaeda fugitive who escaped from jail earlier this year, officials said.
Fawaz al-Rabihi was sentenced to death last year for plotting an attack in which a boat laden with explosives rammed the French oil tanker Limburg.
He was killed when security forces raided a house in the capital Sanaa.
The October 2002 bombing of the Limburg, off Yemen's south-eastern coast, killed a Bulgarian crew member and wounded 12 others.
Rabihi was one of 13 al-Qaeda-linked militants who escaped from prison in February.
The Limburg attack echoed the attack on the USS Cole two years previously.
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