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Indian executed in Saudi for drug smuggling

DUBAI, AUG 23. Saudi Arabia today executed an Indian convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying the man was found guilty of smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin.

The execution brings to at least 85 the number of people put to death this year for murder, rape and drug smuggling.

- Reuters

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