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RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA — The Saudi Interior Ministry says authorities have beheaded two Nigerian men convicted of smuggling cocaine into the kingdom.
Mohammed Qodous and Idris Abdul-Ghani, were convicted of smuggling the drugs by swallowing sachets of cocaine. The Interior Ministry says the beheadings took place Sunday in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah.
Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which those convicted of murder, drug trafficking, rape or armed robbery are executed in public with a sword.
Forty-two people have been beheaded this year, according to an Associated Press count.
