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Second Japanese hostage ‘beheaded’

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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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ISIS: Japanese Hostage ‘Not Enemy of Muslims’, Another Mother Pleads For Son’s Life

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Mother of Kenji Goto, being held by ISIS, pleads for his life, as deadline for payment of $200 million ransom looms.

As the clock ticks down to the end of the deadline ISIS has given the Japanese government to pay a massive ransom, the mother of hostage Kenji Goto, appealed for her son’s life, explaining: “My son is not an enemy of Muslims.”

Junko Ishido tearfully explained at a press conference on Friday morning in Tokyo that it was freelance journalist Goto’s sense of justice that originally led him to work in the Middle East.

Read More: aljazeera.com