An online video has been released purportedly showing a Jordanian pilot who was captured by the Islamic State extremist group being burned to death.
The video was released on militant websites and bore the logo of the extremist group's al Furqan media service. It shows the pilot standing upright in a cage before being burned alive after a torch is held up to a trail of oil leading to him.
Lt Muath al-Kaseasbeh, 26, fell into the hands of the militants in December when his Jordanian F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, the de facto capital of the group's self-styled caliphate. He was the first pilot from the US-led coalition to be captured.
Following militant demands, Jordan's government had said it was willing to trade Sajida al-Rishawi, an al Qaida prisoner, for the pilot. Al-Rishawi faces death in Jordan for her role in a 2005 hotel attack that killed 60 people.
The latest video emerged three days after Japanese journalist Kenji Goto was purportedly beheaded by the militants.
The fate of the two captives had been linked but a video of Goto's purported slaying released on Saturday made no mention of the pilot.
An audio message last week, also purportedly from the Islamic State group, only said the pilot would be killed if al-Rishawi was not released on Thursday.
