The Islamic State has released a
video, claiming to have killed 10 Christians in Nigeria.
The video, released on December
26, is said to be timed to coincide with Christmas celebrations.
The 56-second video was produced
by Amaq, IS’ news agency. It was filmed in an unidentified outdoor area.
The video showed 12 hostages, 10
said to be Christians while the remaining were Muslims. The group claimed that
they spared the lives of two of the Muslims.
IS said it was part of its
revenge against the killing of its leaders after failure to negotiate their
release.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, IS’s late
leader and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir, its spokesman, were killed in Syria in late
October.
The insurgent claimed the victims
were “captured in the past weeks in north-eastern Borno state”.
“We killed them as revenge for
the killings of our leaders, including Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and Abdul-Hasan
Al-Muhajir in Iraq and Syria,” the group was quoted to have said.
However, details of the victims,
who were all male, were not given.
Last week, insurgents had mounted
a checkpoint on the road to Monguno local government area, killing some victims
and abducting others.
Earlier in the month, four
abducted aid workers of the Action Against Hunger, an international
non-government organisation, were killed by the Islamic State in West Africa
Province (ISWAP).
The insurgents said the aid
workers were killed following the breakdown of talks with the federal
government.
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