RIYADH (AFP)
A 25-year-old Syrian 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 on Monday.
The man picked up a knife from the store in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Sunday and decapitated the little boy in full view of shoppers, English-language daily Arab News reported.
The man apparently killed the child following a dispute with his sister and brother-in-law, the paper added.
"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 Saudi Arabia.
