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Serial killer flogged, stabbed, hanged

Published Thursday, March 17, 2005 by Anonymous | | E-mail this post

An Iranian serial killer convicted of kidnapping and murdering 21 people, most of them children, was publicly flogged and hanged south of Tehran on Wednesday before thousands of spectators, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

Mohammad Bijeh, branded "the vampire of the desert" in the Iranian press, was lashed 100 times, stabbed in the back by a furious brother of one victim before a blue nylon rope was placed around his neck by the mother of another murdered child.

The 22-year-old killer, who remained calm and kept silent throughout the punishment, was then hauled into the air by a crane to cries from the crowd of "make him twist".