RIYADH: Two Saudi men were decapitated by sword yesterday for separate murder charges, the interior ministry said.
Yussef Al Nafii, executed in the western city of Taif, had been convicted of shooting fellow Saudi Salman Al Rabii dead after a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
In the other case, Abdessalam Al Ruili was beheaded in Arar in the north for stabbing to death compatriot Abdessalam Al Anzi following an altercation, the ministry said.
The beheadings raise to 28 the number of executions announced in Saudi Arabia so far this year, according to an AFP tally.
AFP
