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Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Pakistani heroin trafficker.
Shah Faisal Azeem Shah was found guilty of smuggling the drugs hidden in his body, the interior ministry said in a statement reported by the official Saudi Press Agency. Authorities carried out the sentence against him in the capital Riyadh.

(Sources: AFP, 01/08/2015)

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