Islamic State [Isis] militants have reportedly executed 13 teenage boys in public for watching the Asia Cup football match between Iraq and Jordan, in the wake of the latest threat to behead two Japanese hostages if $200m is not paid in ransom.
The teenagers were rounded by the firing squad and gunned down in the IS-stronghold of Mosul northern Iraq.
According to the tiny anti-IS activist group Raqqa in Syria Being Slaughtered Silently, the boys were caught watching the match and were being accused of breaking Islamic principles.
'The bodies remained lying in the open and their parents were unable to withdraw them for fear of murder by terrorist organisation,' the group writes on its website, according to multiple reports.
Before the victims were executed, their crimes were announced on the streets of Mosul on a loud-speaker.
The activist group secretly documents the executions carried out by the Sunni Islamist group in various places controlled by them.
The latest chilling execution emerges alongside the threat made by an IS militant, suspected to be 'Jihadi John,' to behead two Japanese hostages if their ransom demands are not met.
The masked man - who is believed to be the same militant who appeared in earlier videos executing western hostages James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines and Alan Henning - has asked for $200m (£132m) within the next 72 hours to free the Japanese captives.
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