RIYADH, Oct 17: Two Pakistani citizens convicted of smuggling heroin into Saudi Arabia were beheaded by the sword on Friday in Riyadh, the interior ministry said.

Sadeq Shah Hadrat Shah and Dhia al-Haq Saheb al-Haq were found guilty of smuggling heroin concealed “inside their bodies”, it said in a statement carried by the state SPA news agency.

In a report released recently, Amnesty International complained that the Saudi government “continues to execute people at an average of more than two a week”. Almost half of them are migrant labourers from poor and developing countries, the London-based watchdog said.—AFP