Bangladeshi man beheaded in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia yesterday beheaded a Bangladeshi, who had been convicted of killing a Syrian man, the interior ministry said.
Madhaheb Shanadra had been found guilty of beating Nabil al-Awdat with a hammer before stabbing and hacking him to death over a dispute, the official SPA news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
Shanadra was beheaded by a sword in Riyadh, it said.
The execution has so far brought the number of people put to death in Saudi Arabia this year to 66, according to an AFP tally based on official reports.
Amnesty International says 79 people were executed in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom last year.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under its strict version of sharia or Islamic law.