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SOMALIA: AL-SHABAB CUTS OFF HANDS OF 2 MEN CONVICTED BY SHARIA COURT
May 18, 2017: Somalia's al-Shabab publicly cut off the right hands of two men after a sharia court convicted them of breaking into a shop and stealing about $500, the al-Qaida-linked group said.
The two men had confessed to the theft in Tiyeglow district of the southern Bakool region and were ordered to refund the money, Moalim Gedow, al-Shabab's Bakool governor told Reuters.
An al-Shabab ambulance then took the men to hospital, Abdullahi Madey, a Tiyeglow resident told Reuters. (Sources: Reuters, 18/05/2017)
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