Islamic State's branch in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday beheaded two men on allegation of practicing witchcraft and sorcery.
Through a video posted on Telegram pro-ISIS channel, the footage showed the terror group forming a religious police unit known as the Hasbah in northern Sinai, where it has waged an insurgency for years.
In the video, two elderly men in orange jumpsuits appear and are taken out of a black van, led to the desert they are beheaded.
A man reads out what he says is a verdict from a Sharia court condemning them to death for "apostasy, sorcery, claiming the ability to tell the future, and leading people to polytheism."
Islamic State uses the terms sorcerers and heretics to refer to adherents of Sufism, a non-violent form of Islam involving mystical rituals that has been practiced for centuries.
IS has killed hundreds of soldiers and police in Sinai since 2013, when fighting intensified, but the video shows the militants are expanding their activities to target civilians.
In February, ISIS militants threatened all Egyptian Christians, the Middle East's largest Christian community, in a video, and began circulating names of Christians who must leave Sinai or die.
