An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State (IS) and identified by private terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence Group on Sept 2, 2014 purportedly shows a masked militant holding a knife and gesturing as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before beheading 31-year-old US freelance writer Steven Sotloff. - AFP
LONDON: The British government on Saturday said it had received reports that "Jihadi John", the British-accented Islamic State (IS) militant apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages, had been injured in a US air strike.
The Foreign Office could not confirm reports published in the Mail on Sunday that the masked executioner, who has appeared in a series of grisly videos posted online, had been wounded while attending a meeting of IS leaders in an Iraqi town close to the Syrian border last week.
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