Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani man, the interior ministry said, bringing to almost 60 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.
Mohammad Yunus, executed in the Eastern Province community of Qatif, “was caught smuggling a large quantity of heroin into the kingdom inside his gut,” the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
His decapitation takes to 57 the number of people executed by sword in the conservative Gulf nation this year, compared with 78 people in all of 2013.
