RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Sunday executed four Yemenis found guilty ofmurdering a security guard, the kingdom’s interior ministry said.

The four men robbed and killed a Pakistani man who worked as a securityguard at a company, said a ministry statement carried by the official SaudiPress Agency.

The execution took place in Mecca, the statement added.

Twenty people have been executed in the kingdom since the beginning of theyear, according to the authorities.

The ultra-conservative kingdom has one of the world’s highest rates ofexecution, with suspects convicted of terrorism, homicide, rape, armedrobbery and drug trafficking facing the death penalty.

In 2018, Saudi Arabia carried out the death sentences of 120 people. -APP/AFP