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Saudi Arabia executed two policemen on Sunday for murdering a Bangladeshi taxi driver.

Saudi Arabia executed two policemen on Sunday for murdering a Bangladeshi taxi driver, raising to at least 25 the number of people put to death in the kingdom this year.

Abdul-Rahman al-Qahtani and Mohamed al-Ghamidi were found guilty of murder and complicity in murdering Abdusattar Ali after they robbed him, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA.

They were also found guilty of several armed robbery and attack charges against other taxi drivers, it added.

The sentence was carried out in Riyadh.

Another policeman, Turki al-Tuweirqi, was executed last Sunday for sexually abusing two teenage boys.

Convicted murderers, rapists and drug traffickers are subject to the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, usually by public beheading. The