<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pearl" id="mwATk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Daniel Pearl">Daniel Pearl</a>, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of <i id="mwATo"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" id="mwATs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>, kidnapped on January 23, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.<sup about="#mwt162" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-30"}}' id="cite_ref-30" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_1#cite_note-30" id="mwATw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 30;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAT0">[30]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-30"><cite about="#mwt159" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFRisen2021">Risen, Clay (July 30, 2021). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/us/ruth-pearl-dead.html" id="mwCCQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Ruth Pearl, Mother of Murdered Reporter Daniel Pearl, Dies at 85"</a>. <i id="mwCCU">The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCCY">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCCc">December 29,</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt159" class="Z3988" id="mwCCg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Ruth+Pearl%2C+Mother+of+Murdered+Reporter+Daniel+Pearl%2C+Dies+at+85&amp;rft.date=2021-07-30&amp;rft.aulast=Risen&amp;rft.aufirst=Clay&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F07%2F30%2Fus%2Fruth-pearl-dead.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+1"></span></span>