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ISIL video shows purported beheading of some 30 Ethiopians

An image grab taken on April 19, 2015 from a video reportedly released by the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group, purportedly shows men described as Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya kneeling on the ground in front of masked terrorists before their beheading on a beach at an undisclosed location in Libya. ©AFP

Takfiri ISIL terrorists have released a new video purportedly showing the execution of some 30 Ethiopian Christians kidnapped in Libya.

The 29-minute footage, released online by the Takfiri group on Sunday, purportedly shows the beheading of a group of around 12 Ethiopian Christian men on a beach and the shooting of another group of at least 16 others in a desert area.

A text on the screen read “followers of the cross from the enemy Ethiopian Church.”

A masked pistol-brandishing militant made a statement in the video, threatening Christians.

The exact number and the identity of the victims are not known so far.

ISIL has released several similar videos from Iraq showing the execution of its captives from different countries, including, Iraq, Syria, the United States, Britain, and Japan.

On April 15, Adel Khamis al-Mahlawi, an Iraqi lawmaker, announced during a press conference that the terrorists had beheaded about 300 people, thought to have been mostly from nomadic tribes in the western province of Anbar.

In February, the Takfiri terrorists released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians kidnapped in Libya. The five-minute video showed the handcuffed hostages dressed in orange jumpsuits, similar to previous ISIL victims, kneeling down along the seaside in the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

In another video released by the Takfiri group in February, a Jordanian pilot, captured by ISIL militants when his plane came down in northern Syria during a mission against the terrorist group, was seen while being burned inside a cage.

The Takfiri group has committed heinous crimes against people in Iraq and Syria.

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