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"I was there. The Islamists took the unmarried couple to the centre of Aguelhok. The couple was placed in two holes and the Islamists stoned them to death," a local government official told the AFP news agency.
"The woman fainted after the first few blows," he said, adding that the man had shouted out once and then fallen silent. Shariah law was implemented in Aguelhok in the region of Kidal in Mali which was one of the first to be captured by the Moedjahidien.