Mali: Drunks get 80 lashes

Timbuktu, 9 July (AKI) - A pair of young male Malians in Timbuktu were lashed 80 times each for being drunk, according to the local press.

The Ansar Eddine Islamist militants whipped the two early Sunday after they were caught drunk in the city in northern Mali, according to the Akhbar Mauritania news web site.

The militants said the two had already been whipped - albeit, fewer times - for a similar infraction.