A gruesome video that appears to show brutal Islamic State fighters cutting the heads off 21 Christian men has been posted online by the terror group.
The gruesome 5 minute long video, released tonight and titled 'A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of The Cross', shows men lined up in orange jumpsuits being walked along a beach front with a masked ISIS fighter grabbing their arm.
The video taken in Libya, shows the men being forced to kneel in front of the terrorists while one of the fighters, also masked, spoke to the camera in a North American-accented English.
He said: "All crusaders: safety for you will be only wishes, especially if you are fighting us all together. Therefore we will fight you all together.
"The sea you have hidden Sheikh Osama Bin Laden's body in, we swear to Allah we will mix it with your blood."
The men were then laid face-down and randomly beheaded.
The speaker among the fighters then pointed northward and said: "We will conquer Rome, by Allah's permission."
The gruesome video is the latest in a line of horrific short films showing the murder of people by ISIS thugs.
British citizens Alan Henning and David Haines and America journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff were all beheaded in videos taken from Syria.
ISIS militants in Libya have held 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians hostage for weeks, threatening to behead them.
The producers of the video identified themselves as the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State group - the Islamic militant group that presently controls about a third of Syria and Iraq.
The Egyptian government has declared a 7-day mourning period and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has convened an emergency national security meeting to discuss a swift response.
He sent his condolences to "the victims of terrorism," according to a statement released by his office.
Qalini Sanyout, whose 2 nephews were among the hostages, said: "What can we say? Can someone tell us if this is true." he said repeatedly. "The whole village is in mourning."
The Coptic Church reiterated its confidence that the Cairo government would seek justice. Al Azhar, the centre of Islamic learning in Egypt, stated that no religion would accept such "barbaric" acts.
The families of the kidnapped workers had pleaded with Cairo to help secure their release. In the southerly Minya Governorate, relatives of the victims screamed and fainted upon hearing news of the deaths.
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