Journalist Kenji Goto shown being beheaded in new video released by the armed group, SITE Intel monitoring group says.

ISIS has released a video purportedly showing the killing of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto, a monitoring service has said.  The video released online by the armed group shows the journalist who was abducted while reporting on Syria’s civil war last year being beheaded with a knife by a black-clad masked fighter.

The Japanese government said it was trying to authenticate the video.

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