A Nigerian man has been executed in Saudi Arabia for the murder of a police officer, marking the 95th execution carried out by the kingdom this year.
Fahd Houssawi was executed in the city of Taif on Sunday. He had been convicted of the murder of a security man named Abdul-Ghani Al-Thubaity.
Houssawi had knocked the man to the floor and repeatedly hit his head on the ground, beating him to death, before wounding another security man as he attempted to escape, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Amnesty International has warned that at the current rate Saudi Arabia could see more than 100 executions in the first half of 2016.
The London-based watchdog said the kingdom carried out at least 158 death sentences last year, making it the third most prolific executioner after Iran and Pakistan. Its figures do not include secretive China.
The executions this year are higher than at the same point last year, Amnesty said.