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Saudi authorities on Monday beheaded a Nepalese housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said.
The maid was found guilty of "slaughtering with a knife" the Saudi toddler Osama bin Maeed Al Enzi, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
The ministry said the maid was executed in the northern city of Arar without providing further details of the crime.
In a second execution on Monday, Saudi national Hamad Al Ahmadi was decapitated in the holy western city of Medina for stabbing his wife to death while she was asleep, another ministry statement said.
The latest executions bring to 17 the number of death sentences carried out this year in the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia beheaded 78 people in 2013, according to an AFP count.
According to figures from Amnesty International, the number of executions rose from 27 in 2010, including five foreigners, to 82 in 2011, including 28 foreigners.
In 2012, the number of executions dipped slightly to 79, among them 27 foreigners.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's Sharia law.
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