RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed a Jordanian man on Friday for drug trafficking in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.

Mohammed Abu Samak was arrested “as he was smuggling a large amount of banned amphetamine pills,” said a ministry statement carried by the official SPA news agency.

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