Militants aligned with Islamic State have released a video which purports to show the beheading of a man the extremists claim had been working for the Philippine National Police.
The graphic video posted online on Thursday to an Islamic State channel on an encrypted messaging service was accompanied by a statement from a group calling itself “Ansaru’l Khilafah Philippines”.
The authenticity of the statement and the video, which has been seen by AAP, have not been confirmed.
The same militant group has previously released a video in which they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.