SAUDI ARABIA. MAN EXECUTED FOR MURDER

20 March 2007 :

Saudi Arabia executed a convicted murderer. Salem bin Jumaian bin Khalif al-Shummari stabbed and killed Fares bin Mufdhi bin Ammash al-Shummari during a fight, an Interior Ministry statement carried by the state news agency said.

(Sources: Reuters, 20/03/2007)

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