Four executed for adultery in Pakistan

Tribesmen shot four people to death in a public execution in northwestern Pakistan, after a council of elders found them guilty of adultery, an official said.

Residents seized the three men and a woman at a house in Alam Gudar, a village in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, said Purdil Khan, a local government official.

The four confessed under questioning by a hastily convened council of tribal elders, who sentenced them to death, Khan said yesterday.

Tribesmen shot them in the street in front of a large crowd of residents, Khan said.