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Boko Haram Video Shows Beheading of Nigeria Pilot
LAGOS, Nigeria — Oct 3, 2014, 11:58 AM ET
Boko Haram, the extremist Islamic group In Nigeria,
has published a video that shows charred plane wreckage
and the beheading of a man identified as a pilot of a missing Nigerian Air Force jet,
bolstering the group's claims that it shot down a fighter plane.
The video ends with a show of burnt-out plane parts in rugged bush.
Two pilots and an Alpha jet
have been missing since Sept. 11
when it left the northeastern town of Yola on a bombing mission against Boko Haram.
The video shows a kneeling man in a camouflage vest with his right hand in a sling,
with a fighter hovering over him with an ax,
which is later used in the beheading.
Speaking in English, the victim identifies himself as a wing commander
in the Nigerian Air Force
and says he was undertaking a
mission in Kauri area of northeast Borno state.
"We were shot down and our aircraft crashed," he says.
"To this day I don't know the whereabouts of my second pilot."
The insurgents have stolen military hardware from Nigerian forces, probably including anti-aircraft weapons.