(UPDATED) The Philippine military confirms the beheading of Juergen Kantner, the 3rd foreigner to be beheaded in the last 10 months

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Intensified military operations in Sulu failed to stop notorious local terrorist group Abu Sayyaf from killing its German hostage as the deadline it set for a P30 million ($600,000) ransom lapsed. The brief video circulated by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites, showed Mr Kantner sitting in a grassy clearing, saying: "Now he kill me" before a masked militant beheaded him with a curved knife. In a text message to CNN, Philippines Secretary Jesus Dureza, the Presidential Peace Adviser, said the government strongly condemned “the barbaric beheading of yet another kidnap victim.”

“Up to the last moment, many sectors, including the Armed Forces of the Philippines, exhausted all efforts to save his life.
The Abu Sayyaf militant group beheads their German hostage Jurgen Kantner in Indanan, Philippines.