Somalia — Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen court has Thursday carried out double amputations on four men for stealing phones and guns in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

They have each had a hand and foot cut off after being convicted by a Sharia court in the capital earlier this week.

Hundreds of people, mainly women and children, watched as members of Harakat Al-shabab Muhideen cut off their limbs.

The four men reportedly admitted to the robberies.

On Monday, the court had said it was too hot for the sentence to be carried out on that day as an amputation in such conditions could lead the accused to bleed to death.

Source: All Africa