Terror group ‘kills French hostage Herve Gourdel’

Mike Gallagher

Sep 24, 2014 - 12:44

Sep 24, 2014 - 12:46

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Terror group ‘kills French hostage Herve Gourdel’

Killed ... An image grim a video by group Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, shows hostage Herve Gourdel appealing to French President Francois Hollande to help free him. Picture: AP Source: AP

A TERRORISM watchdog says Algerian extremists allied with the Islamic State group have killed French hostage Herve Gourdel.

A group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah said after abducting Gourdel on Sunday that he would be killed within 24 hours unless France ended its air strikes against Islamic State group fighters in Iraq.

The French govement has insisted it will not back down.

US terrorism watchdog SITE Intelligence Group says Jund al-Khilafah released a video online on Wednesday saying Gourdel had been killed.

He was a 55-year-old mountaineering guide from Nice.

The French govement would not immediately comment.

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Mountain guide ... Herve Gourdel, 55, has reportedly been killed after he was kidnapped on September 21, by Jund al-Khilifa, a group linked to radical Islamic State (IS) militants in the mountainous of Algeria. Picture: AFP/HO Source: AFP