ISIS claims Croatian hostage beheaded in Egypt

ISIS claimed Wednesday to have beheaded a Croatian hostage abducted in Egypt, posting a purported picture of the victim’s body on ISIS-affiliated Twitter accounts.

The Croat, Tomislav Salopek, was abducted last month west of the capital Cairo. The jihadists had issued a 48-hour deadline that ended last Friday threatening to kill him if Muslim women prisoners were not released from Egyptian jails.

The picture’s authenticity could not be immediately verified.