The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has released a video purportedly showing the killing of Japanese hostage, Kenji Goto, a monitoring service has said.
The video released online shows the journalist being beheaded with a knife by a black-clad masked fighter
Goto a freelance journalist who had reported from war zones for more than twenty years, in Africa, Afghanistan and the Middle East, was abducted while reporting on Syria's civil war last year
The Japanese government said it was trying to authenticate the video. He travelled to Syria, at least in part, to attempt a rescue of his friend Haruna Yukawa, who was captured by ISIL in August.
Yukawa was a self-styled military consultant who went to Syria to set up a security company, despite a lack of any experience.
In October, Goto was captured by ISIL and was held captive alongside his friend and the group demanded a $200 million dollar ransom for the two men. Just last week, the armed group released a video. In it, there was an image of Goto, chained by the wrist, and in his hands a photograph of his friend Yukawa, who had been killed.
Source: Aljazeera
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