Militants aligned with Islamic State have released a video which purports to show the beheading of a man the extremists claim had been working for the Philippine National Police.
The graphic video posted online on Thursday to an Islamic State channel on an encrypted messaging service was accompanied by a statement from a group calling itself "Ansaru'l Khilafah Philippines".
The authenticity of the statement and the video, which has been seen by AAP, have not been confirmed.
The same militant group has previously released a video in which they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A statement accompanying the latest video names the victim, who it's claimed is aged 43, and says he was a resident of General Santos City, in Mindanao, which has long been a hotbed of Islamic extremist activity.
"This Jasus (spy) was roaming and sniffing around the area of the Ansaru'l Khilafah Philippines in Saranggani Province," the statement says.
It says he was captured on March 16 and "beheaded right away by the Mujahideen".
In January, a video was posted online in which it was claimed that four Islamic terrorist groups in the southern Philippines, including Abu Sayyaf, had merged and declared their allegiance to Islamic State.
It was reported in January that 10 members of Ansaru'l Khilafah, also known as Ansar al-Khilafah in the Philippines, were killed in a security operation on Mindanao island on November 26.
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