SAUDI ARABIA: SIX FOREIGNERS BEHEADED

The Saudi Press Agency has disclosed that 6 foreigners were beheaded in Saudi Arabia between May 1^st and 4.
On May 1st Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug smuggling. Shirin Khan was put to death in Riyadh province after being found guilty of smuggling heroin into the kingdom in swallowed balloons, the interior ministry said.
Five prisoners were beheaded on May 4 for murder and robbery. Their nationals are 2 Yemenis, a Chadian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese.
In a statement, the interior ministry said the men were put to death in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
They were identified as Yemenis Khaled Fetini and Ibrahim Nasser, Hassan Omar from Chad, Eritrean Salem Idriss and Abdel Wahhab Abdel Maeen from Sudan.
They were all convicted of killing an Indian guard at a business and stealing money from the safe.
Their beheadings bring to 78 the number of locals and foreigners executed in Saudi Arabia this year.