Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly gotten injured during airstrikes launched by US-led coalition warplanes in Iraq's Mosul on Friday.

Reports claim that a convoy of 10 IS vehicles was destroyed in the attack and it is believed that Baghdadi was also injured in the attack.

A BBC report that cited the Facebook post of Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi, said that Baghdadi was said to have been critically injured in the attack.

"We have confirmation that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was wounded in an allied forces air raid... in the town of Mosul last Friday evening.. We confirm the death of his deputy, Abu-Muslim al-Turkmani. We pray to God not to help [Baghdadi] recover and to speed up his demise," the BBC quoted the Facebook post of Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi,

"We cannot confirm if ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present," a senior US official said.

The IS has seized the control of a vast area of land in Iraq and Syria and has anointed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as its caliph. Baghdadi rarely appears in public and he was last seen at a mosque in July. At that time, the IS leader had demanded all Muslims to pledge allegiance to him.