Abu Sayyaf video 'shows beheading of German hostage'

I guess it's a done deed. Yuck.
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Kantner was snatched on November 5 from his yacht off the southern Philippines. The armed group's fighters shot his 59-year-old wife dead after she fought back and left her body in the boat.

Abu Sayyaf is a small but highly active group known for beheading, kidnapping, bombing and extortion in the south of the country.

The group is believed to be holding a number of hostages and has freed several in return for ransom payments.

Abu Sayyaf, which is considered a terrorist organisation by several western countries, emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of a separatist rebellion by minority Moro Muslims in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation's south.

Kidnap-for-ransom operations have long been a lucrative business in the region but have escalated in recent years.