Pubdate: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 DUBAI, Sept 12 (Reuter) Saudi Arabia beheaded an Indian heroin smuggler and a Filipino murderer on Friday, raising the number of people executed so far this year to 96. An Interior Ministry statement read on Saudi television said the Indian man was executed near Mecca after a court found him guilty of smuggling an unspecified quantity of the drug into the conservative kingdom. A separate ministry statement said the Filipino, also beheaded near Mecca, had been convicted of stabbing to death an Egyptian man following a dispute. Saudi Arabia applies Islamic sharia law by publicly beheading by the sword convicted murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and other criminals. A total of 68 people were beheaded last year. 10:17 091297