IS 'guillotines second Lebanese officer'

Lebanese armed force's defensively covered individual transporters (APC) enter the town of Arsal. Photograph: August 2014 

The Lebanese armed force has as of late sent fortifications to Arsal 

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A second Lebanese officer taken prisoner by Islamic State (IS) activists has been decapitated, reports say. 

Photographs of the murdering of the trooper - named as Abbas Medlej - were posted on online networking systems. 

The Lebanese military said it was exploring the reports. 

Abbas Medlej was among various Lebanese troopers seized by IS in August, after the aggressors propelled an invasion into the Lebanese town of Arsal, close to the Syrian fringe. 

A percentage of the prisoners are purportedly being held by IS and others by the al-Qaeda-connected Nusra Front. 

IS prior debilitated to kill an officer at regular intervals if the Lebanese government did not consent to discharge the bunch's parts confined in Lebanese prisons. 

Abbas Medlej's mother, Zienab Noun, said the pictures demonstrating the executing seemed, by all accounts, to be genuine. 

"My child was relinquished," she was citing as saying by the Associated Press news organization. 

On Saturday Islamic State issued an announcement saying the trooper had been guillotined after he attempted to escape. 

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A week ago, the Lebanese armed force got the remaining parts of a missing solider accepted to have been decapitated by IS activists. 

Authorities said the assortment of Sgt Ali Sayyed was given over to the Lebanese Red Cross outside Arsal. 

A feature purportedly demonstrating Sgt Sayyed being executed was likewise posted on the web. 

The battling in Arsal - which left 16 regular citizens, 20 troopers, and many aggressors dead - was the most genuine occurrence along the fringe with Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad started in 2011. 

IS aggressors - who control vast swathes of Syria and Iraq - have as of late guillotined two American writers, James Foley and Steven Sotloff.