Saudi beheaded for killing woman after rape bid

RIYADH — Saudi authorities beheaded on Tuesday a national convicted of murdering a woman after he tried to rape her, the interior ministry said.

Hussam Al-Sharari was found guilty of slitting the throat of the woman who resisted his attempts to rape her after he sneaked into her house, it said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

He was executed in the city of Sakakah, in the northern Jawf region. — AFP

Courtesy: Saudi Gazette