DUBAI, Sept 1: A court in Dubai has sentenced four Pakistani workers to death for murdering their boss and trying to make it look like suicide, newspapers reported on Sunday.

The men strangled 40-year-old truck driver Mohammed Yunis on Jan 8 with a nylon rope in the office of the transport company which employed them, Al-Bayan said. The rope was then tied to a door knob and a bottle of liquor left in front of the dead man, the criminal court heard.

Nazim Hussein Ghulam Haydar, Ashiq Hussein Ghulam Haydar, Mohammad Anwar Ghulam and Mohammed Amjad Khan Kairuz, aged between 30 and 42, were all found guilty of murder.

Execution is usually by firing squad in the United Arab Emirates.—AFP