Group of Bangladeshis stage mock execution scene in protest of Saudi Arabia beheading of eight Bangladeshi workers in Dhaka, 15 October 2011 (Photo: Reuters)
Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded two men convicted of murder, one who ran over his victims and the other who deliberately hit his victim's car, the interior ministry announced.
Mohammed al-Harbi, a Saudi national, was convicted of "intentionally running over" and killing a Saudi couple—Rabih al-Asiri and his wife Nasila Asiri, the Saudi interior ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
He was beheaded in the kingdom's western province of Qunfudah.
In a separate statement, the ministry said that another man, Abdullah al-Jahdali, was also beheaded in another western province, Al-Laith, after he was found guilty of intentionally hitting Fahd al-Jahdali's car and killing him.
The executions bring to 67 the number of those beheaded this year in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.
Earlier this month, the UN human rights office expressed concern over the rate of executions in Saudi Arabia, and called for an immediate halt to the practice.
The UN statement came after the kingdom beheaded 10 men—eight Bangladeshis and two Saudis—on the same day.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the oil-rich Gulf state's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
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