{UAH} Paedophile who raped and murdered girl, 5, executed in street
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GRAPHIC CONTENT: Paedophile who raped and murdered girl, 5, executed in street
A CHILD rapist was publicly shot and his body hung from a crane after he was found guilty of abusing and murdering a five-year-old girl.
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Residents gathered in Tahrir Square in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, to witness the execution of Hussein al-Saket.
The 22-year-old was fund guilty of abducting, raping and murdering Safaa al-Matari.
Judge Rajeh Ezzedine, who attended the execution, said he later buried the little girl's body.
The victim's uncle, Ali Ayedh, said Saket "took part in the search for the girl before being unmasked".
His role was discovered the course of the police investigation, Mr Aydeh said, welcoming the sentence as it would act as a "deterrent for criminals".
Saket had his hands tied behind his back, was placed face down in the square before a policeman shot him five times through the heart.
His body was then strung up from a crane, to be seen for miles.
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The public execution is the second in several weeks, with that one being the first since 2009.
A 41-year-old man being killed in the same square on July 31.
Muhammad al-Maghrabi was found guilty of raping and murdering a three-year-old Rana al-Matari, and was shot with a AK47.
A large crowd had gathered to witness the killing, with some filming the scenes on their mobile phones.
Witness Khaled Abdullah told Reuters: "The man was escorted from the van to the middle of the square, and then the place turned to a complete chaos.
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"He tried to talk to the executioner, a police officer who was calmly smoking a cigarette as he stood next to him before pointing his AK-47 to his back from a very close distance.
"Soon he fired around four shots, and people realized that it was done, they rushed to the place and tried to take the body, but the police were able to take the body to the van and drove through the crowd out of the square."
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The square has been in control of the Shiite Huthi rebels since 2014, and the public crackdown is thought be an effort to stamp out crime in the area.
The Iarnian-backed Huthis have been at war with the Saudi-backed government, led by President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, for more than two years.
The ongoing conflict has seen more than 8,300 people either killed or displaced.
And the city is continuing to be gripped by a cholera epidemic, which has claimed the lives of 2,300 people since April.
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