UN condemns aid worker killing

Islamic State video purportedly showing the beheading of a man identified as British taxi driver Alan Henning emerged on Friday night.

The video on a social media website couldn't be independently verified by Reuters.

Henning was abducted when a convoy he was with taking medical supplies to a hospital in Syria last December was stopped by gunmen.

On Saturday the United Nations condemned Henning's killing.

(SOUNDBITE)(English) MARIA CRISTINA PERCEVAL, ARGENTINEAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND ACTING SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR OCTOBER, SAYING:

"The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the heinous and cowardly murder of Alan Henning, a volunteer British humanitarian aid worker, by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Islamic State). This crime is a tragic reminder of the increasing dangers volunteer humanitarian personnel face every day in Syria. It also once again demonstrates the brutality of ISIL which is responsible for tho