Agence France Presse:
Radical Islamists in Somalia cut off the right hands of two men who admitted theft as hundreds of people, including women and children, looked on, a judge said Saturday.
"The court handed down its verdict according to Islamic sharia law after the two accused admitted their guilt," judge Abu Yusuf Sheik Hasan told journalists Saturday.
"They paid for their crimes."
The sentence was carried out by a hooded executioner with a long knife late Friday in the small town of Balad, 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of Mogadishu, which is controlled by the Shebab movement, witnesses said.
Hassan Omar Mohamed, 18, and Murshid Ahmed Adan, 22, confessed to having burgled shops, stealing 45 million and two million Somali shillings (1,350 and 60 dollars) respectively.
A witness who gave his name as Muktar described how three men restrained each amputee, one of them holding the right arm while it was cut off.
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