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 Reuters was unable to verify the authenticity of the video, but
the killings resemble past violence carried out by Islamic State, an
ultra-hardline group that has expanded its reach from strongholds in
Iraq and Syria to conflict-ridden Libya.
The video, in which militants call Christians "crusaders" who are
out to kill Muslims, showed about 15 men being beheaded on a beach
and another group of the same size, in an area of shrubland, being
shot in the head.
Both groups of men are referred to in a subtitle as "worshippers of
the cross belonging to the hostile Ethiopian church".
Libyan officials were not immediately available for comment.
Ethiopia said it had not been able to verify whether the people
shown in the video were its citizens.
 "Nonetheless, the Ethiopian government condemns the atrocious act,"
government spokesman Redwan Hussein said.
He said Ethiopia, which does not have an embassy in Libya, would
help repatriate Ethiopians if they wanted to leave Libya.
The United States also condemned the "brutal mass murder," with the
White House saying the killing of the men "solely because of their
faith lays bare the terrorists’ vicious, senseless brutality."
Militants professing loyalty to Islamic State have claimed several
attacks on foreigners in Libya this year, including an assault on
the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli and the beheading of 21 Egyptian
Christians in February.
The killing of the Egyptians prompted Egyptian President Abdel
Fattah al-Sisi to order air strikes on Islamic State targets in
Libya.
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In the latest video, a man dressed in black clutching a pistol stood
behind some of the victims.
"Muslim blood shed under the hands of your religions is not cheap,"
he says. "To the nation of the cross: We are now back again."
The video warns that Christians will not be safe unless they embrace
Islam or pay protection money.
Islamic State controls large parts of Iraq and Syria and wants to
redraw the map of the Middle East. It is not clear how many fighters
it has in Libya, an oil-producing nation.
Egyptian security officials estimate that thousands of militants who
share Islamic State's ideology moved from the Sinai Peninsula to
Libya after the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim
Brotherhood in 2013.
(Additional reporting by Ahmed Tolba in Cairo, and Aaron Maasho in
Addis Ababa; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Gareth Jones and
Peter Cooney)
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