The deadline set by the "Islamic State" (IS) given to Japan to pay for the release of the two Japanese hostages passed, but there is no information on the fate of these people, reports Reuters.
Earlier the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared that the lives of their people are very important for them, but they cannot do whatever the terrorist say. Chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga in his turn has declared that
As Reuters writes hours before the deadline passed, the mother of one of the hostages asked to release her son: "My son Kenji is not an enemy of the people of the Islamic faith. I can only pray as a mother for his release."