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The lone surviving Canadian hostage in the southern Philippines has appeared in a new video, announcing that his captors will decapitate him and a Norwegian man next month if they do not receive $16 million in ransom first.

Robert Hall, looking drawn and gaunt, says he will be executed at 3 p.m. on June 13 if demands of the Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf are not met.

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#AbuSayyafGroup in Philippines threatened to execute Canadian or Norwegian hostage if demand not met by June 13, 3pm https://t.co/jU0RlgDAQ4 —

SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) May 15, 2016

“I appeal to my government and the Philippine government, as I have appealed before, for help,” he says in a calm but monotone voice, a phalanx of armed, masked extremists standing behind him.

An English text with the video specifies that a hostage will be beheaded if the ransom is not paid.

The video was posted by the jihadists on May 13 and discovered Sunday by the Site Intelligence Group, about three weeks after Abu Sayyaf murdered John Ridsdel, another Canadian seized at the same time as Hall.