ISIS claims execution of 11 Christians

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A group affiliated with ISIS, also known as ISIL, has released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 Christians in northeast Nigeria, one day after Christmas.
The footage posted in an online Telegram news channel late on Thursday by ISIS-linked propaganda arm Amaq showed 11 blindfolded men being lined up at an unidentified outdoor location.
One man is shot before the other 10 are beheaded. A masked man in the almost one-minute video claimed the killings were in response to the death of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his spokesman.
Al-Baghdadi committed suicide in October to avoid capture during a raid by United States special forces on his hideout in the province of Idlib, northwestern Syria.
In recent months, Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has intensified its attacks on Christians, security personnel and aid workers, setting up roadblocks on main roads and conducting searches.
A previous video, seen by Reuters News Agency, said the captives had been taken from Maiduguri and Damaturu in Nigeria's northeast, where fighters have been attempting for years to set up a separate state under Islamic law.
In that earlier video, the captives pleaded for the Christian Association of Nigeria and President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene and save them. More
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