Islamist militants in Philippines set deadline to execute foreign captives

[WorldNews]

(Reuters) - Islamist militants in the Philippines on Friday announced a new deadline of April 25 for the execution of three foreign captives and a Filipino, but scaled back their ransom demand in a video posted on social media. In the video, the captives, with machetes held to their necks, asked their families and governments to pay a ransom of 300 million pesos ($6.51 million) each, down from the figure of a billion pesos each that the militants demanded last year. A spokesman for the Philippine military declined to comment, saying he had not seen the video.

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