Somali militant group Al-Shabab carried out four public beheadings on Sunday of men accused of spying on the group, according to residents in southern Somalia.
The executions took place in Jamame, a town in Somalia’s southern Lower Juba region, following a trial in a Sharia court overseen by the group, Al-Shabab’s Regional Governor Mohamed Abu Abdalla told Reuters.
Abdalla added that the four men had “admitted they were spies” without elaborating on whom they were spying on behalf of. The group has previously executed members accused of spying for the Western-backed government in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, as well as the United States.