Unmarried Mali couple stoned to death for violating 'Islamic law'

18 May 2017: un unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by "Islamists", local officials revealed, the first such incident since jihadist groups were driven out of the region. "The Islamists dug two holes where they put the man and the woman who lived maritally without being married," said a local official. "They were stoned to death."