Report: Islamic State Shoots, Beheads Some 30 Christians in Libya
By Rick Pearcey • April 20, 2015, 10:20 AM
Sylvia Westall reports for Reuters:
A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the video, but the killings resemble past violence carried out by Islamic State, an ultra-hardline group that has expanded its reach from strongholds in Iraq and Syria to conflict-ridden Libya.
"The video, in which militants call Christians 'crusaders' who are out to kill Muslims, showed about 15 men being beheaded on a beach and another group of the same size, in an area of shrubland, being shot in the head," Westall reports.
