(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) The U.N. Secretary General is condemning 'in the strongest terms' the beheading of a group of Egyptian hostages in Libya and is blaming the ISIS group.
The statement issued Monday by the spokesman for Ban Ki-moon says the secretary-general 'deplores the targeting of people on account of their religious affiliation.'
The U.N. Security Council late Sunday strongly condemned what it called the 'heinous and cowardly apparent murder' of the 21 Egyptians and blamed it on an affiliate of the ISIS group, AP reported.
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