ISIS kills Norwegian, Chinese captives

Terror group, ISIS continues to send shock waves across the globe after claiming on Wednesday that it had killed a Norwegian and a Chinese held captive.
The group had earlier demanded ransoms for the two men before they were both killed in cold blood.
ISIS published two images of the men in the second-to-last page of its English-language magazine , saying they had been “executed after being abandoned by kafir nations and organizations.”
”Kafir” is the Arabic word for infidel. In the images, the men both appeared to have both been shot to death.

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The group had earlier identified the Norwegian man as Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Oslo, and the Chinese man as Fan Jinghui, 50, a freelance consultant from Beijing. ISIS did not say when or where the two were captured.
Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesman Rune Bjastad said: “We have no confirmation yet”. There was also no immediate reaction in Beijing to the announcement, nor from the state-run Xinhua news agency.

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