SEVEN PRISONERS, INCLUDING ROYAL, HANGED IN MASS EXECUTION

KUWAIT CITY Kuwait hanged seven prisoners in a mass execution on Wednesday, including a royal family member and a woman convicted of killing 58 women and children when she set fire to a wedding tent. They were the first death sentences carried out in several years in the oilrich emirate.

Those executed included a Bangladeshi, a Filipina, an Ethiopian, two Kuwaitis and two Egyptians. All had been convicted of murder except the Bangladeshi man, who was convicted of rape, kidnapping and theft.

Kuwait’s ruler, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, authorized the executions, which were carried out in the central prison.

The royal was identified as Faisal Abdullah Al Jaber Al Sabah, who killed his nephew Basil Al Sabah in 2010.

Nasra al-Enezi was convicted of setting fire to the wedding tent in 2009 after her husband took a second wife. The Bedouin-style tent, put up so women attending could be uncovered had only one entrance.