Saudi Arabia beheads drug trafficker

January 29, 2013 18:02

AFP: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its nationals today after he was convicted of drug trafficking, the interior ministry announced in a statement. Musaed al-Ruweili was arrested as he tried to smuggle "a large number of narcotic pills into the kingdom," said the statement, cited by the official SPA news agency.

He was beheaded by the sword in the northern Al-Jawf province. The execution brings to seven the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia so far this year.

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