RIYADH - Saudi authorities on Tuesday beheaded a national for murder and a Pakistani for drug trafficking. Nader bin Mussa al-Harbi was found guilty of strangling compatriot Bandar bin Muhya al-Harbi over a dispute. He was executed in the northern city of Hail. Pakistani citizen Benyameen Ali Ahmed was executed in Jeddah after being convicted of smuggling drugs in his stomach, the ministry said. The two executions bring to 53 the number of death sentences carried out in 2015, compared with 87 in all of last year, according to AFP tallies.
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