Merka — Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen court has carried out amputation on a man for stealing cow in Gandabe village near Merka town in Lower Shabelle region, witnesses and officials said on Friday.

They have had a hand cut off the man after being convicted by a Sharia court in the town in Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia.

Reports say that the sentenced man was a famous teenager for stealing and was caught from Gandabe village where he stole the cattle and lately sentenced in the Islamic court of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in Merka town on Thursday afternoon.

Locals said that the sentenced man was 30, and named Mohamed Islow saying that he lost his right hand while he was found guilt of stealing domestic animal from Gandabe village in lower Shabelle region.

Hundreds of people watched as members of Harakat Al-shabab Muhideen cut off his right hand as the judgment took place in a public square in Merka town.

He was taken to a hospital in the town after the ruling.

The man's hand was taken and circulated through the streets and neighborhoods in the town to take the people as an example.

Lastly Sheik Abdirahman Kismayu, a chief of the Islamic court in the town warned to the people in Merka town to be alert on such banditry action.