Second Sweida hostage held by ISIS dies

The 65-year-old Syrian woman was among more than 30 people seized by ISIS two weeks ago as it unleashed a violent attack against Sweida province.

On Thursday, the negotiating delegation received images showing the lifeless body of a second hostage, said Nour Radwan, who heads the Sweida24 news outlet.

"After cutting off communication for several days, ISIS corresponded with the negotiating delegation of Sweida to tell them she died of illness," Radwan told AFP.

Relatives told Radwan the woman suffered from heart problems and diabetes, but they had no way of verifying if they had caused her death. 

ISIS has been in talks with Assad regime and Russia to swap the hostages for militants held by the regime.

ISIS executed one of dozens of Druze hostages abducted from Syria’s Sweida last week.