A Yemeni man who killed three nuns from Mother Theresa's order was executed on Wednesday by firing squad, security officials said. Abdullah al-Nashri shot the three nuns in 1998 as they left a clinic for the disabled. One nun came from the Philippines, the other two from India. Al-Nashri was executed in the city of Hodeidah, 138 miles west of the capital San'a. Police initially said al-Nashri was unstable. But in 2000, a court found him responsible for his actions and convicted him. He was sentenced to death a year later. Last week, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh approved the death sentence. Al-Nashri had fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia, police said. He was married to a Bosnian woman and had two children.
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