No definitive word yet on whether Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in Mosul, but the White House is discounting the reports.

Iraqi and US troops were continuing to hunt for the Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who has a 25 million dollar US bounty on his head, after commanders dismissed reports that he had been killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

“We have no indication that Zarqawi was killed and we will continue operations to search for him,” a US military spokesman told AFP in Baghdad.

In Beijing, where US President George W. Bush was wrapping up a visit, White House spokesman Trent Duffy described the reports of Zarqawi’s death as “highly unlikely, not credible.”