Jihadists with ties to the al-Qaeda terror network executed a Christian missionary after four years in captivity in the African nation of Mali, Swiss authorities reported Friday.
Media identified the woman as Beatrice Stoeckli, a Christian missionary from the north-western Swiss city of Basel who was first kidnapped by Islamist militants in early 2012 and later released on condition that she not return to Mali.
The missionary was abducted again in January 2016 while working in the city of Timbuktu and appeared in a terrorist video in July 2017 with her face wrapped in a black headscarf.
The Swiss foreign ministry has now confirmed that the woman was killed by an al-Qaeda-linked coalition in Mali. Breitbart.
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