The ISIS has announced that it will whip whoever spreads or confirms the news of the death of their ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

The ISIS terrorist group has declared in a statement that those who make any remarks about the death of the terrorist group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or confirm the news regarding the issue will be receive 50 lashes.

According to a local source in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, the ISIS released its brief statement in Tal Afar near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

The statement is the ISIS’ first reaction to recent reports on the death of al-Baghdadi, who has been most probably killed in the Russian airstrikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa, the terrorist group’s de-facto capital.