[ARABNEWS] Daesh has executed a woman for “witchcraft” and a man accused of spying in its Libyan stronghold, news agencies close to the country’s rival authorities said Monday.Daesh beheaded the Moroccan woman in a public square and shot dead a Palestinian man for alleged spying in the coastal city of Sirte, said the agency close to the internationally recognized government.
The extremists also chopped off a Libyan’s hand for stealing, witnesses said.
Libya has had rival administrations since August 2014, when a radical militia alliance overran Tripoli, forcing the government to take refuge in the east.
The group claimed control of Sirte, Qaddafi’s hometown some 430 km east of the capital, in June.
The group is trying to spread toward Ajdabiya, a city controlled by loyalist forces and located between Sirte and Benghazi in an area where most of the country’s oil and gas terminals are located.
According to a UN report issued in December, Daesh has between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters in Libya, including 1,500 in Sirte.