The Islamic State terrorist organisation has beheaded two women in Syria. The founder of a group monitoring the war said, it was the first time that the ISIS decapitated female civilians.
Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the conflict using sources on the ground, said that the beheadings took place in the eastern Deir al-Zor province sometime this week.
The monitor said ISIS accused the women of sorcery. While one was beheaded in al-Mayadeen city to the south east, the second one was beheaded along with her husband in Deir al-Zor city.
Local and foreign men have been beheaded in Syria earlier, including enemy combatants, aid workers and journalists along with people the ISIS held in violation of its hardline interpretation of Islamic law.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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