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| Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh 'burned alive' | Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh 'burned alive' |
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| A video published online by Islamic State (IS) militants claims to show Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive. | A video published online by Islamic State (IS) militants claims to show Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh being burned alive. |
| The video, which could not immediately be verified, shows a man standing in a cage and engulfed in flames. | |
| Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh was captured when his plane came down near Raqqa, Syria, in December on a mission to support the US-led military coalition against IS. | Lt Moaz al-Kasasbeh was captured when his plane came down near Raqqa, Syria, in December on a mission to support the US-led military coalition against IS. |
| Jordanian state TV confirmed the death and said he was killed a month ago. | |
| The video posted online on Tuesday was distributed via a Twitter account known as a source for IS propaganda. | |
| A relative of Lt Kasasbeh told Reuters news agency that the Jordanian armed forces had informed the family that he had been killed. | |
| The BBC's Frank Gardner says that the video is clearly intended to shock. | |
| The highly produced 22-minute film includes a sequence showing the Jordanian pilot walking at gunpoint amongst rubble apparently caused by coalition air strikes that targeted jihadists. | |
| Jordan had been attempting to secure Lt Kasasbeh's release as part of a prisoner swap. | |
| It had offered to free Sajida al-Rishawi, who is on death row in Jordan for her role in hotel bombings in Amman in 2005, in return for the release of Lt Kasasbeh. | |
| Members of Lt Kasasbeh family had been gathering every day at a community centre not far from the royal palace in Amman. | |
| The video emerged three days after another video appeared to show the dead body of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. | |
| The US state department said it was working to confirm the authenticity of the video. | |
| US President Barack Obama said that if the video was real, it would redouble the determination of the coalition against IS to degrade and destroy it, Reuters reported. |