Japan attempts to verify video claiming ISIS have beheaded one Japanese prisoner and demanding release of female suicide bomber in exchange for life of the second

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924582/Have-ISIS-beheaded-Japanese-hostage-Country-expresses-outrage-new-video-emerges-appearing-captive-holding-picture-fellow-captive.html

The Japanese government has branded a new audio recording purporting to be from one of the hostages pictured with Jihadi John 'outrageous and disgusting', but cannot confirm if it is genuine.

In the recording, a voice claiming to be that of Kenji Goto, 47, one of the Japanese men who appeared in the latest Jihadi John video, says his fellow captive Haruna Yukawa has been killed.

He blames the death on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and says he will be killed as well if ISIS's new demand to release a failed female suicide bomber is not met.

The Japanese government has condemned the message, but say they cannot verify its authenticity after allegations that the Jihadi John video was also stitched together from several recordings.