JEDDAH: A Pakistani national was beheaded Wednesday for smuggling heroin into the Kingdom.

Nazir Ahmed Sultan Ahmed was found guilty of smuggling the drug in his intestines, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

The execution, 98th this year, was carried out in Jeddah, SPA said.

Under the Kingdom's law, drug trafficking, rape, murder, armed robbery and apostasy are punishable by death.