By Ajnadin Mustafa.
![Crowd gathers yesterday to watch the Sirte murders](https://www.libyaherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Crowd-gathers-to-watch-Sirte-murders-300x154.jpg)
Tripoli, 15 December 2015:
In the latest is a series of killings presumably designed to consolidate their hold on Sirte, . . .[restrict]IS terrorists have executed a woman who they decided was a witch and a man who was accused of being a spy. Also yesterday, they cut off the hand of a man they had convicted of theft.
The woman, variously described as an Algerian or a Moroccan was beheaded in a public square. The alleged spy, believed to be a Palestinian, was shot in the same location. The terrorists are also understood to have carried out a series of floggings. [/restrict]