Islamic State supporters have posted a video showing an elderly German man thought to have been kidnapped last year.
It shows the man in an orange jump-suit standing in a freshly dug grave.
Masked militants can be seen holding assault rifles and heard threatening the German government.
Soldiers found the body of a German woman on an abandoned yacht off the Philippines in November.
It was suspected then that her companion was taken captive.
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