3 to be executed for burying 5 alive

A Saudi court sentenced three local men to death after they were convicted of murdering five Indian farm workers by burying them alive.

One of the defendants told court that they decided to kill the farmers four years ago after one of them was accused of molesting his employer’s little daughter.

Alriyadh newspaper quoted him as telling court in the central Qatif province that he and his accomplices had liquor and drugs before murdering the five workers.

“He told court that he and his friends beat the five farmers with sticks until they fainted and then they carried the five and buried them alive in a pit behind the house in the farm,” the paper said, adding that the crime was discovered after the bodies were unearthed by accident during farm work.