Chilling new images released by ISIS militants show a group of fighters throwing a man off the roof of a building for being gay.

Moments before he is flung to his death, a mob of at least eight men can be seen atop of the building that is believed to be somewhere in northern Iraq.

Posted on a jihadist website the group go on to show the graphic images of the man’s body before seeking to justify the brutal execution.

After dragging the man to the top of a building the mob threw him to his death after he was found guilty by an Islamic court of being gay

Heavily armed, balaclava clad Islamic State fighters read the judgement which said the man who was found guilty of being gay, should be thrown off the highest point in the city, which is believed to be somewhere in northern Iraq

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Heavily armed, balaclava clad Islamic State fighters read the judgement which said the man who was found guilty of being gay, should be thrown off the highest point in the city, which is believed to be somewhere in northern Iraq

It is not known whether the man died instantly after being thrown from the roof. The Islamic court ruled that he should also be stoned to death

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It is not known whether the man died instantly after being thrown from the roof. The Islamic court ruled that he should also be stoned to death

‘The Islamic court in Wilayet al-Furat decided that a man who has practised sodomy must be thrown off the highest point in the city,’  they said in a statement accompanying the images, adding that he would also be ‘stoned to death.’

Wilayet al-Furat refers to an area stretching across the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, where the Euphrates river flows from Syria into Iraq.

It is not known whether the man died instantly after being thrown off the roof.