ISIS Kidnaps 88 Eritrean Christians From Human Smugglers in Libya

After ISIS beheaded 21 captured Egyptian Christians on a beach, the Libya branch of Islamic State' has kidnapped a large group of Eritrean Christians who were traveling to Libya with hopes of boarding a migrant boat to Europe.

According to the news confirmed by a US defence official, the migrants were kidnapped by militants south of the city of Tripoli, last Wednesday. Three Eritrean migrants reportedly managed to escape from the kidnappers after the militants asked who in the group were Muslims and tested their knowledge of the Qura'an. Three migrants managed to escape by jumping from the back of their vehicle
According to Meron Estafanos, the co-founder of the Stockholm-based International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, there were 12 Eritrean Muslims and some Egyptians in the group of 88 migrants.

Estafanos said the Muslims in the group were in a seperate truck from the Christians. 12 Eritrean Christian women were also separated from the main group.