FOUR EXECUTED FOR ADULTERY IN PAKISTAN

Pakistani villagers shot dead a woman and three men, including an Afghan refugee, in a public execution after a tribal council found them guilty of adultery, a witness and government officials said. About 600 people watched the execution in the Khyber agency, a semi-autonomous ethnic Pashtun tribal region on the Afghan border. "We found a man and a woman in a compromising position along with another man who was drunk and had already committed adultery, and the owner of the house" said Haji Jan Gul, a resident of Alamgudar village, where the four were killed. "All four confessed to adultery," he said. An official in the area's administration office confirmed the incident, saying the punishment was carried out in accordance with tribal traditions and authorities did not intervene.