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Saudi national beheaded for murder
Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a national convicted of killing a compatriot, the Interior Ministry said.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:31 May 11, 2008
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a national convicted of killing a compatriot, the Interior Ministry said.
Eid Bin Hamjahuj Al Shimari was found guilty of shooting dead a fellow national with a machine gun, the ministry said in a statement published on the SPA news agency.
Al Shimari was executed in Arar town near the border with Iraq; becoming the 57th person to be executed in the kingdom this year.
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