Dhaka: ISIS militants have burned an 80-year-old Christian woman alive in northern Iraq for failing to comply with their drastic interpretation of Islamic law, reported BasNews agency from Iraq’s Kurdistan.

The punishment was carried out in the woman’s village of Karamlish, 20 km southeast of Mosul, BasNews said late Tuesday, citing Kurdistan Democratic Party representative Saed Mamuzini.

‘The woman was killed for failing to obey ISIS’s strict laws,’ Mamuzini was quoted as telling BasNews.

This is the first instance of IS militants burning a person since the murder of a Jordanian pilot earlier this year.

Karamlish is one of dozens of Assyrian Christian villages in the Nineveh Plains surrounding Mosul which were partially overrun by ISIS in August 2014, causing 200,000 people to flee.

Mosul and surrounding areas in northern Iraq have been under ISIS control since June, 2014, and ISIS fighters have reportedly destroyed many Christian churches.