May 20, 2012: Saudi authorities beheaded two Pakistanis in Makkah finding them guilty of two murders, the interior ministry said.
Bashir Afridi and Rahmulwahab Abdullah, both Pakistanis, murdered and robbed Mohammed Haji, a fellow Pakistani, the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
The two also killed a woman and caused the death of another, SPA reported, without revealing the nationalities of the two women.
The beheadings bring to 28 the total number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom so far this year, according to an AFP tally based on official reports.
Source: Agence France-Presse, May 21, 2012
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