Jordan has confirmed the death of pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh after a video published online by ISIS claimed to show him being burned alive, BBC News reported.
The video shows a man standing in a cage and engulfed in flames. Intelligence officials are working to confirm it is genuine.
Jordan vowed “punishment and revenge”.
Lt Kasasbeh was captured when his plane came down near Raqqa, Syria, in December on a mission to support the US-led military coalition against ISIS.
The video posted online on Tuesday was distributed via a Twitter account known as a source for ISIS propaganda.
The highly produced 22-minute film includes a sequence showing the Jordanian pilot walking at gunpoint amongst rubble apparently caused by coalition air strikes that targeted jihadists.
The BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner says the new and horrific video is aimed at a world already shocked by the calculated cruelty of Islamic State’s actions.
Jordanian state TV reports that Lt Kasasbeh, 26, was killed a month ago – since when Jordan has continued attempts to secure his release.
Jordan had been attempting to secure Lt Kasasbeh’s release as part of a prisoner swap, offering to free Iraqi militant Sajida al-Rishawi in exchange.
She is a failed suicide bomber now on death row in Jordan for her role in attacks in the capital, Amman, that killed 60 people in 2005.
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