Philippines: German kidnap victim reportedly beheaded  -Elderly German executed by Abu Sayyaf terrorists after ransom deadline passed

 

Juergen Gustav Kantner, 70, was executed by the group of Muamar Askali, also known as Abu Rami, a self-proclaimed Daesh-linked terror group spokesman, in the town of Indanan, Sulu.

A video posted Feb. 14 on social media showed four masked Abu Sayyaf gunmen, including one aiming what appears to be a sickle at Kantner, setting a deadline threatening to behead him if the German government failed to a pay 30 million Philippine pesos ($600,000) ransom demand.

Anadolu Agency