New Delhi, April 9 – In a brutal attack, ISIS militants in Iraq publicly beheaded a man accused of practising witchcraft. Disturbing images posted on social media by its supporters shows the victim’s severed head in a pool of blood. The incident is believed to have taken place in Iraq’s Salah al-Din province.
One of the photos shows a machete-wielding bearded terrorist about to cut-off the head of the blindfolded victim who was wearing a brown jumpsuit. Another image shows the severed head resting on the back of the victim’s lifeless body, the dailymail.co.uk reported.
The photo also shows the man’s lifeless body is surrounded by brightly-coloured prayer beads, indicating that he may have been selling them moments before his brutal execution. In the backdrop, the pictures show, a huge crowd which had assembled to witness the beheading.
The beheading comes even as Iraqi security forces began to exhume the bodies of soldiers killed last year in the city of Tikrit. Some 1,700 Iraqi soldiers were believed to have been brutally killed by ISIS.
The report citing Kamil Amin from Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry said that at least eight locations inside Tikrit’s presidential complex will be dug up as part of the search for the bodies.
-INDIA TODAY
