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BAGHDAD – ISIS militants on Tuesday publicly stoned a man and woman to death on charges of adultery in Iraq, parading the victims in a public square in the northern city of Mosul, according to witnesses and an Iraqi military official.

It was the latest in a series of public executions of people accused of social crimes in the city, which ISIS wrested from Iraqi control last June.

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The victims were not identified but were in their 20s, witnesses said. The woman was described as being married. It was not known whether they had been given a trial, but none was held in public.

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Abu Mohammad al-Lahibi, who runs a clothing store in Mosul, said he had seen the militants gathering several hundred residents in front of the government building in Mosul to witness the execution. The couple were handcuffed, and the woman was wearing a niqab, or full face veil.