Video Purports To Show Beheaded Japanese Hostage

Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called the purported beheading of Japanese hostage by captors of the self-declared Islamic State "outrageous and unacceptable" after a video surfaced showing what appears to be one hostage holding a photo of his decapitated fellow abductee.

"This is an outrageous and unacceptable act of violence," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters as he arrived at his office after midnight for an emergency meeting, according to Reuters.



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