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Philippine militants behead kidnapped school principal

Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks.

Major-General Ben Dolorfino, commander of military forces in the western part of Mindanao region, said the victim's decapitated head was found at a petrol station in the main town on Jolo island.