SAUDI MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDER

a Saudi man was beheaded by the sword after being found guilty of the murder of a fellow countryman, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Hassan bin Awadh al-Bariqi was executed in the southern province of Assyr for shooting dead Mohammad bin Khedhr al-Bariqi after a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. It did not say if the two men were related.