ISIS-linked group executes four hostages in Nigeria: NGO

Members of a group that pledged allegiance to ISIS have executed four Nigerian hostages held since July, the French aid group Action Against Hunger said on Friday.

Members of a group that pledged allegiance to ISIS have executed four Nigerian hostages held since July, the French aid group Action Against Hunger said on Friday.

The four victims were among the six hostages held by the armed fighters from the so-called ‘Islamic State West Africa Province’ (ISWAP) group in Nigeria, the Paris-based NGO said, adding that one of its staff and two drivers were among those killed.

The militia comprised local hunters across the northeast along with the state-funded Civilian Joint Task Force, an armed vigilante group.

<span “>The decade-long armed uprising has killed 35,000 people and displaced about two million from their homes in northeast Nigeria.

The violence has now spread to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional military coalition against the fighters.