breaking: Indonesia Executes 8 Condemned Drug offenders

Eight drug offenders have reportedly been shot dead by firing squad on Indonesia's execution island, while a ninth has been spared. A Filipina who was on death row with them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute.


There was no immediate official confirmation that the eight men had been executed.

Earlier, Jakarta rejected last-ditch pleas from around the world for clemency to be granted the drug traffickers from Nigeria, Australia, Brazil and Indonesia, ordering their mass execution to proceed within hours.

A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said the execution of Mary Jane Veloso, a mother of two who was arrested in 2010 after she arrived in Indonesia with 2.6 kg of heroin hidden in her suitcase, had been delayed.

He said the delay came in response to a request from Manila after a drug courier gave herself up to police in the Philippines on Tuesday.