Militants in Egypt claim to have beheaded four men they had accused of being Israeli Mossad spies in a video which appears to have been inspired by the tactics of the Islamic State. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, which has been described as Egypt's most dangerous militant group,  released the video, in which it accused the four Egyptians of spying for Israel's Mossad agency. In the video, the captives can be seen kneeling on the floor with armed men in black masks standing behind them as one of the militants reads out a statement. Minutes later the four men have been beheaded.
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Sinai-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis releases beheading video
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Militant group claims the men had been spying for Mossad
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Security source said headless corpses found in Sinai earlier this month
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Men had reportedly been abducted two days earlier in Sheikh Zuwaid
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