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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