Islamic State Releases New Video That Appears to Show Christians Being Beheaded on the Beach

CAIRO (TheBlaze/AP) — A video released by the Islamic State group appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

The 29-minute video released online Sunday purportedly shows two groups of captives. It says one group is held by an IS affiliate in eastern Libya and the other by an affiliate in the south.

A masked fighter delivers a long statement before the video switches between footage that purportedly shows the captives in the south being shot dead and the captives in the east being beheaded on a beach.

See images below via the Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper, the SITE Intelligence Group and Algerian blogger Baki 7our Mansour.

#ISIS released a video threatening Christians and executing by gunshot and beheading Ethiopian Christians in Libya. pic.twitter.com/jSLVPKl22X

— SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) April 19, 2015

#ISIS release new video from #Libya, showing execution of #Ethiopian #Christian's. #IslamicState #Daesh pic.twitter.com/DiLNOGV3HL

— Alwasat بوابة الوسط (@alwasatengnews) April 19, 2015

There is another awful IS video with two mass killings of African Christians in #Libya. pic.twitter.com/hhOEXxbH6F

— Baki 7our Mansour (@7our)

April 19, 2015

It was not immediately clear who the captives in the video were.

The video bore the official logo of the IS media arm Al-Furqan and resembled previous videos released by the extremist group