A MAN beheaded his 15-month-old nephew in
front of his mother in a supermarket in Saudi Arabia apparently after a
family dispute, newspapers reported.
The 25-year-old Syrian national picked up a knife
from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah yesterday and decapitated
the little boy in full view of shoppers, Arab News said.
The man apparently killed the little boy following a
dispute with
the man's sister and brother-in-law, the English-language daily said.
"He chopped off the boy's head in front of the mother to
get back at
her," a police officer was quoted as saying. The mother fainted and was
taken to hospital.
Murder is punishable by death in ultra-conservative
Muslim Saudi
Arabia, where the death sentence is usually carried out by beheading.
