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Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani man for smuggling heroin
24 October 2014 17:23 BST
Saudi Arabia on Friday beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling heroin into the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry said.
Butha Mushtaq was the third Pakistan executed on drug charges in Saudi Arabia since October 15.
He was found guilty of smuggling heroin concealed in capsules which he had swallowed, and executed in the capital Riyadh, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
His execution brings to 59 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year.