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IS claims killing two more hostages

By Editor
19 November 2015   |   11:00 pm
THE Islamic State (IS) militant group says it has killed two hostages - a Norwegian and a Chinese citizen. IS gave no details about when or where Ole-Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Norway and Fan Jinghui, 50, from China were killed. It had demanded ransoms from their countries. Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, said there was…

THE Islamic State (IS) militant group says it has killed two hostages – a Norwegian and a Chinese citizen.

IS gave no details about when or where Ole-Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Norway and Fan Jinghui, 50, from China were killed. It had demanded ransoms from their countries.

Norwegian Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, said there was no reason to doubt the claim, and called it a “barbaric act”.

Chinese President Xi Jinping also condemned the killing.

“Terrorists are the common enemy of humankind,” he said, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

IS Dabiq magazine published what it said were photographs of the men, alive and dead.

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