ISIS hostage head butts captor before shooting them and escaping in Afghanistan

'A fool, a maniac, and a man who loves Russia': Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine goes low with a flurry of personal attacks on Donald Trump as the vice presidential debate turns ugly
Preparing for the worst: Floridians clear supermarket shelves and board up their homes while South Carolina is ready to evacuate one million people as deadly Hurricane Matthew hits the Caribbean and barrels toward the US
'We will never know why God called Noah home so soon': Parents of one-year-old boy who was shot dead while in a bedroom with his three-year-old brother release statement
Boy, 12, is charged with a felony after posing as a clown on a video app and 'threatening to kill the students at his Florida middle school because he thought it would be funny'
Texas set to execute inmate for first time in six months: Man set for lethal injection on Wednesday - 13 years after he murdered a couple and shot their son
Why could Kim flee France so soon? How did gang get in? Why no CCTV? MICHAEL JACKSON'S bodyguard says her security looked 'fishy' as we pose the ten key questions on the Kardashian heist
'She's not turning her back': Kim Kardashian will return to Paris in future despite being robbed at gunpoint
EXCLUSIVE: 'She's not doing so good': Kim Kardashian's friend Jonathan Cheban gives update on star after armed $11m Paris diamond heist left her fearing for her life
'Maybe it's karma': Kim Kardashian's ex-bodyguard who was fired by Kanye 'for flirting' in May laughs off robbery ordeal and claims the $11m heist is '100 per cent an inside job'
'You can't flaunt your wealth and think people won't want a share': Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld claims Kim Kardashian brought £8.5m gunpoint robbery on herself
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reveals he is keeping up with the Kardashians as he references Kim's jewelry heist during oral arguments
Kim Kardashian's robbers are caught on 'million-to-one' CCTV image as they crept past sleeping guard and escaped on push bikes
'I'm so thankful she's okay': Caitlyn Jenner expresses relief over Kim Kardashian armed heist... after being criticized
Debate moderator under fire for cutting off Pence during Hillary email attack while Trump campaign calls Kaine 'sexist' for ignoring her questions
First poll shows Mike Pence WON the debate - but voters insist their performances won't affect the way they vote in November
'It's clear who tonight's biggest loser is': Official GOP website accidentally declares Mike Pence as winner of vice presidential debate... hours before it begins
Mike Pence kicks off the vice presidential debate by thanking the WRONG college for hosting the event
'He came off as a jerk': Tim Kaine's 70 interruptions of Mike Pence during VP debate gives Clinton's running mate low marks from viewers
Pence bashes Catholic Kaine for partial birth abortion and says his own evangelical faith won't allow him to take the life of an almost-born baby
'Kaine looks like an evil crook out of the batman movies': Trump live-tweets his musings on the vice presidential debate, and doesn't miss the opportunity to troll Megyn Kelly
Revealed: How Bill Clinton plotted to 'bushwhack' attorney general on airport tarmac and got a promise that Hillary wouldn't be prosecuted over classified emails
Tim Kaine brings up running mate's trustworthiness in debate - my wife and I trust her 'but the thought of Donald Trump as commander in chief scares us to death'
Clinton 'can't recall' if she joked about getting rid of Julian Assange with a drone - as she holds a press conference in a secretive shrine
Trump campaign manager wonders why Obama didn't 'beat his chest and say we need to get rid of this provision' that allowed Trump to write off $916 million

The grainy footage is believed to have been captured in Afghanistan
It shows three prisoners with hands tied being led away to be executed
One of them leaps up and reverse head butts captor before grabbing gun
Video has not been verified and there are claims online that it is a hoax

Published: 02:54 EST, 16 September 2016 | Updated: 04:43 EST, 16 September 2016

e-mail

204

View
comments

Dramatic footage has emerged of a condemned hostage apparently headbutting his ISIS captor and escaping to freedom - moments before he was due to be executed.

Video believed to have been captured in Afghanistan shows three men with their hands tied behind their backs being ordered to kneel by a man brandishing a machine gun.

But seconds before they are due to be gunned down, one of the prisoners leaps up and appears to head butt one of the extremists.

Dramatic footage has emerged of a condemned hostage apparently headbutting his ISIS captor and escaping to freedom - moments before he was due to be executed

Video believed to have been captured in Afghanistan shows three men with their hands tied behind their backs being ordered to kneel by a man brandishing a machine gun. But seconds before they are due to be gunned down, one of the prisoners leaps up and appears to head butt one of the extremists

The grainy film then appears to show the prisoner grabbing the guard's weapon before the sound of gunshot rings out

The grainy film then appears to show the prisoner grabbing the guard's weapon before the sound of gunshot rings out.

In the confusion, the camera is dropped on the ground and it is not known for certain whether the prisoner or any of his fellow captives were able to escape.

According to The Sun, there are claims online that the film is a fake or that the dramatic escape was somehow staged.

There are claims online that the film is a fake or that the dramatic escape was somehow staged

In the confusion, the camera is dropped on the ground and it is not known for certain whether the prisoner or any of his fellow captives were able to escape

The guards in the film are believed to be speaking Pashtun, a language used in Afghanistan.

Online reports suggest the man who escaped was a prisoner of ISIS.

Afghanistan has seen fighting between government forces and Islamist militants - mainly Taliban insurgents but also ISIS fighters - reach record levels this year following the 2014 withdrawal of US-led foreign combat troops.