Saudi Arabia beheads an Indian

Saudi Arabia beheads an Indian man convicted of drug trafficking on Tuesday, says the interior ministry.

Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indian man convicted of drug trafficking on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.

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Abu-Bakr al-Anfal al-Abourat was beheaded in Riyadh after being convicted of smuggling heroin into the Kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency SPA.

Abu-Bakr was convicted by the court and the verdict was approved by the supreme judicial council, it said.

Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict form of sharia, or Islamic law, usually carried out executions in public. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking can all carry the death penalty.