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Islamic State burns an 80-year-old Christian woman alive for refusing to comply with Sharia law

The incident took place in Karamlish, which is the woman's village, 20 km southeast of Mosul, according to the independent BasNews agency reports.

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Islamic State rebels reportedly burned an 80-year-old Christian woman alive near Mosul in northern Iraq for violating their strict Islamic laws.

The incident took place in Karamlish, which is the woman's village, 20 km southeast of Mosul, according to the independent BasNews agency reports. 

Saed Mamuzini, representative of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) office in Mosul, told the BasNews on Tuesday that the militants burnt the 80 year-old Iraqi Christian woman after she failed to obey the Sharia laws of the Islamic State.

Karamlish, one of the dozen Assyrian Christian towns, was partially overrun by Islmic State. This resulted in over 200,000 people to flee these areas.

The ISIS has been in control over Mosul and surrounding areas in northern Iraq since June last year and fighters from the Sunni extremist group have reportedly destroyed many Christian churches in the area. 

A 20-year-old woman was said to have been burned alive by the IS after refusing to perform an "extreme sex act", the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict Zainab Bangura told the Middle East Eye website last week. 

This is the first instance of IS militants burning a person alive after the horrific murder of the Jordanian pilot who was burnt alive in a metal cage as shown in a video released by the IS militants in February this year.

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