White House: US hostage Mueller's captors sent message to her family

WASHINGTON - US aid worker and hostage Kayla Mueller was determined to have died after her Islamic State captors reached out privately to her family over the weekend, a White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
"Over the weekend, the family received a private message from Kayla@@@s ISIL captors containing additional information," spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said, using an acronym for Islamic State.
"Once this information was authenticated by the intelligence community, they concluded that Kayla was deceased."
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