A 15-year-old boy died in Yemen overnight after Al-Qaeda militants severed his right hand as punishment for allegedly stealing electric cables, a medic said.
Maher Ali’s hand had been severed by sword on Saturday by the militants in front of dozens of residents of Jaar, in the troubled southern province of Abyan, witnesses and medics said. Ali had “died of wounds he sustained when Al-Qaeda militants cut off his hand, after losing “too much blood,” the medical official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The teenager was one of two Yemenis to have had their hands cut off by Qaeda militants for stealing in recent days. The second, a 26-year-old man, had his hand cut off Sunday.
“They brought in the accused with a doctor who drugged him and cut off his right hand,” one witness told AFP.
