Aussie alive in new video

AL-QAEDA’S Mali branch has released a proof-of-life video of six foreign hostages, including elderly Australian surgeon Arthur Kenneth Elliott and Frenchwoman Sophie Petronin, US-based monitoring group SITE said.

The 16-minute, 50-second video by Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen, also known as the Group to Support Islam and Muslims, was released on Telegram on Saturday, SITE said.

Elliott, in his 80s, was abducted along with his wife Jocelyn in January 2015 in Djibo, Burkina Faso. She was released in February 2016.