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SAUDI ARABIA: THREE PAKISTANIS BEHEADED FOR MURDER
April 7, 2009: Saudi Arabian authorities beheaded three Pakistanis convicted of killing a fellow Pakistani man, the Interior Ministry said in a statement in state news agency SPA.
Muhammad Akram Shafi, Muhammad Kamran Qassem and Asghar Ali Abdulaziz allegedly stabbed Muhammad Firyad Muhammad, a Pakistani jewellery salesman to death during a robbery. The three were executed in the central city of Burida.
It said the trio kidnapped Firyad to steal money and the gold he was carrying. They took him to a deserted area and struck him on the head with a stone until he died. (Sources: Daily Times, 08/04/2009)
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