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3 NIGERIANS, 5 OTHERS KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD IN INDONESIA

3 NIGERIANS, 5 OTHERS KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD IN INDONESIA

After all pleas for clemency were rejected, three
Nigerians have been executed alongside five others
who have been on death row after being convicted of
drug trafficking.
The men were put to death by firing squad at
Nusakambangan prison island near Cilacap in Central
Java, at around 00.00 local time, which is about
6.00am in Nigeria.
The eight were Indonesian Zainal Abidin,
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran
Sukumaran, Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, Nigerians
Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise, Raheem Agbaje
Salami and Okwudili Oyatanze, Ghanaian Martin
Anderson.
The execution was the second round after the first
was carried out on Jan. 18, which also included a
Nigerian.
Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines was
spared after a woman who allegedly recruited her to
act as a drug courier gave himself up to police in the
Philippines on Tuesday.




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