Indonesia executes 2 Nigerians
2008-06-27 11:15
Jakarta - Two Nigerian drug traffickers were executed by firing squad early on Friday in Indonesia, an official said.
"A firing squad of 12 people executed them in an outdoor area some three kilometres away from their prison," provincial prisons chief Bambang Winahyo told AFP.
He said the execution was carried out just after midnight near Nusakambangan island prison in central Java.
Samuel Iwachekwu Okeye and Hansen Anthoni Nwaoysa were caught smuggling some 7kg of heroin into the country through Soekarno Hatta airport in 2001.
Their requests for clemency from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono were rejected in 2004.
Winahyo said the Nigerian embassy had asked Indonesia to take care of their burial.
The last person to be executed for a drug offence in Indonesia was an Indian national in 2004.
- AFP