Al Qaeda Cell ‘Beheads British Hostage’
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned the apparent “barbaric” killing of a British hostage held in the Sahara by an al Qaeda cell.
Tourist Edwin Dyer was captured on the border between Niger and Mali and held hostage for more than four months before claims of his murder emerged.
The Briton and three tourists - two Swiss citizens and a German woman also taken hostage - were returning from a music festival, near Timbuktu, on January 22.
Terror group al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrebsaid (AQIM) said on a website it had killed Mr Dyer and that disbelievers would be “smitten in the neck”.
A London newspaper reported that the hostage had been beheaded.
His ordeal started with a so-called “show execution” where kidnappers fired a gun just an inch away from the head of a member of his party as they attacked the group’s convoy.
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