1 | Extremist group says the 30-year-old married father of two was killed 'for his country's participation in the war against the Islamic State.' |
2 | This image made from a militant video posted on a social media site on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, purports to show a militant standing next to another man who identifies himself as 30-year-old Tomislav Salopek, kneeling down as he reads a message at an unknown location. |
3 | An online image purports to show the Croatian hostage being held by an Islamic State affiliate in Egypt has been beheaded. |
4 | An online image circulated Wednesday purported to show a Croatian hostage held by the Islamic State group's Egyptian affiliate beheaded. |
5 | The still image, shared by Islamic State sympathizers on social media, showed the apparent body of Tomislav Salopek, a married, 30-year-old father of two, wearing a beige jumpsuit looking like the one he had worn in a previous video. |
6 | A black flag used by the Islamic State group and a knife were planted in the sand next to him. |
7 | The photo carried a caption in Arabic that said Salopek was killed "for his country's participation in the war against the Islamic State," and after a deadline had passed for the Egyptian government to meet their demands. |
8 | This comes after the Islamic State affiliate set a Friday deadline for Egyptian authorities to free "Muslim women," a term referring to female Islamist prisoners detained in a sweeping government crackdown following the 2013 military ouster of an Islamist president. |