A video tape showing the last moments of the Polish captive in Pakistan, killed on Saturday by the Taliban, has been handed into the Reuters office in the north western town of Dera Ismail Khan.

The tape shows two men cutting off the head of Piotr Stanczak, a Polish engineer who was kidnapped by the Taliban last September in the Attock region, near the border with Afghanistan.

A statement by the Taliban in Pakistan on Saturday said that they would not be delivering the body of the engineer unless certain conditions were met, including the release of prisoners. But they would deliver the video of his death, said the spokesman known as ‘Mohamed”.

Stanczak becomes only the second foreign kidnap victim to be killed in Pakistan since American journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002. (pg)

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