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Foreign Secretary condemns latest ISIL barbarity

Foreign Secretary responds to the murder of Norwegian and Chinese nationals by ISIL

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and The Rt Hon Philip Hammond
• Published: 19 November 2015

Philip Hammond said:

I condemn ISIL’s cowardly murder of Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad and Fan Jinghui. These murders are further evidence of ISIL’s brutality. They only strengthen our resolve to defeat this barbaric terrorist organisation.

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Published 19 November 2015