Mother, daughter executed

Dubai - Saudi Arabia yesterday executed a mother and daughter convicted of killing their husband and father and burning his body…

Dubai - Saudi Arabia yesterday executed a mother and daughter convicted of killing their husband and father and burning his body in the desert.

The Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency that an Islamic sharia court had convicted the daughter of drugging her father with sleeping pills and then shooting him with a pistol.

The statement said the two women then carried the body into the desert and set it on fire "in a bid to conceal the crime".