A deadly terrorist group in Egypt has brutally murdered a cleric by beheading him after accusing him of witchcraft.
Sufi cleric Sheikh Sulaiman Abu Haraz
ISIS brutes have beheaded a 100-year-old cleric - after accusing him of practising witchcraft,
Dailymail reports.
The old man identified as Sufi cleric Sheikh Sulaiman Abu Haraz, was dragged to an executioner's block in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula before his head was brutally cut off with a sword in front of a crowd of extremists.
The killing was one of two executions captured on camera by fanatics from the ISIS-affiliated Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group.
According to Al Arabiya, ISIS-Sinai accused the elderly man of 'practising witchcraft'. Haraz was reportedly 'one of the symbolic Sufi clerics and elders of the Sinai Peninsula.
He was kidnapped in his in front of his home in Arish city.
ISIS has had a presence in the region since November 2014 when Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis pledged allegiance to the terror group.
In October last year, jihadists bombed a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from a Red Sea resort in an attack that crippled the country's economy.