Filipino Muslims Behead Canadian Man, Leave His Head in the Street

A severed head was left Monday on a street in the southern Philippines, authorities said, five hours after a ransom deadline set by Islamist militants holding Western hostages and others. Canada’s prime minister identified the victim as a 68-year-old Canadian.

The beheading underscored fears of widening violence by Islamist guerrillas, known as the Abu Sayyaf group, as it forges possible allegiances with the Islamic State.

The Abu Sayyaf group had set a deadline for payment of the equivalent of $6.5 million for each of its foreign hostages, including two Canadians and a Norwegian man seized along with a Filipino woman in September from a marina on Samal Island in the country’s south.

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Muslims...
In the Philippines
I thought it was a Catholic country.