BEIRUT: The extremist Daesh group has closed playgrounds in a Syrian city because they were being used as a meeting place for unrelated men and women, a monitor said Sunday.

“Daesh has shut down playgrounds in the city of Mayadeen in the eastern Deir Ezzor province... under the pretext that there was mixing between men and women bringing their children to play,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Observatory’s sources inside the city said that the Hesbah — Daesh moral police — had patrolled through Mayadeen’s playgrounds on the first of day of Eid Al-Adha, earlier this week.

They then proceeded to arrest several men and women “for not abiding by Islamic rules on dress.”

In the terrorists’ de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria, three women were arrested in a playground on Sunday by Daesh police for “not being accompanied by men,” the Observatory said.