Four Saudis sentenced to death in Yemen for 2014 beheadings

DUBAI -- A court in Sanaa has sentenced to death four Saudis convicted of belonging to al Qaeda and beheading 14 Yemeni soldiers in a 2014 attack, according to media run by the Houthis, the northern rebel group in control of Yemen's capital.

"The criminal court in charge of terrorism cases in Sanaa on Sunday sentenced four Saudi nationals to death for belonging to al Qaeda and killing and beheading 14 soldiers of the 135th Brigade," al-Masirah television reported.

The court ordered for the men to be executed in public and in the presence of the families of those killed, the channel reported.