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Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Saudi Executes At Least 338 People In 2024: AFP Tally

Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which it carried out a record number of executions, according to an AFP tally of official reports.

The six were executed in Dammam, on the Gulf coast, for having "clandestinely introduced hashish" into the kingdom, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency without specifying when.

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