Saudi national beheaded for murder

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.