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Riyadh: Saudi Arabia took the unusual step on Wednesday of executing three men for burgling a home and robbing its owner at knifepoint.
The three men from Myanmar were put to death in Makkah for stealing gold jewellery from the house of a woman who they had tied up to prevent her calling for help and threatened with knives, the official Saudi News Agency said.
It said the men sold the jewellery and one of them had carried out previous thefts.
Saudi Arabia usually carries out executions by public beheading for murder, rape, drug smuggling and increasingly armed robbery.
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