"Islamists" stone couple kicked the bucket in north Mali

Bamako: An unmarried couple were stoned to death in broad daylight in upper east Mali by "Islamists", nearby authorities stated, the main such episode since jihadist gatherings were driven out of the locale.

"The Islamists burrowed two openings where they put the man and the lady who lived maritally without being hitched," said a nearby official. "They were stoned to death ."

The stoning occurred in Taghlit on Tuesday, near Aguelhok in the Kidal locale, and a similar source disclosed to AFP that individuals from the general population were welcome to participate.

"Four individuals tossed stones at them until they kicked the bucket," they said.

Another nearby authority said the Islamists had blamed the unmarried couple for disregarding "Islamic law", which requires discipline by stoning.

Amid their short control of key towns in the huge north, jihadist bunches forced an adaptation of Sharia law which constrained ladies to wear cloak and set whipping and stoning as a discipline for transgressions.

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Boat ran out of fuel, water came from everywhere: migrants recount horror

Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as rescue ships saved thousands of others.

The shipwrecks appear to account for the largest loss of life reported in the Mediterranean since April 2015, when a single ship sank with an estimated 800 people trapped inside. Humanitarian organisations say that many migrant boats sink without a trace, with the dead never found, and their fates only recounted by family members who report their failure to arrive in Europe.

“It really looks like that in the last period the situation is really worsening in the last week, if the news is confirmed,” said Giovanna Di Benedetto, a Save the Children spokeswoman in Italy.

Warmer waters and calmer weather of late have only increased the migrants’ attempts to reach Europe.

The largest number of missing and presumed dead was aboard a wooden fishing boat being towed by another smugglers’ boat from the Libyan port of Sabratha that sank Thursday. Estimates by police and humanitarian organisations, based on survivor accounts, range from around 400 to about 550 missing in that sinking alone.

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