HUMAN TORCH HORROR: Friends Burn Saudi Pilot Alive In Drug Execution

This is the horrific moment an airline pilot screams in agony as he stumbles through a street in Saudi Arabia after being burned alive in a shocking drug killing.

Captain Bandar Al-Qarhadi’s had been tied to his car and then doused in petrol in an underground car park by four men who then set fire to him.

Local media in Jeddah report that the killers had been involved in importing drugs into Saudi, despite the state’s death penalty for all traffickers and dealers.

All four are said to have been close friends of the pilot.

Earlier this month alone, millions of tablets of highly addictive Captagon worth almost GBP 50 million hidden in cement bags and the walls of a lorry were seized in Saudi.

Use of the drug has dramatically increased in the Middle East, where smuggling of the amphetamine-like narcotic is thought to be worth up to GBP 5 billion.

In the horrific killing of the airline captain, the four men stopped him in his car in an angry confrontation.

Then they locked him inside his vehicle, poured petrol over it and set it on fire.

One video shows the completely gutted vehicle and another shows a man attempting to extinguish it.

A third gruesome video shows the victim with his clothes burned off, screaming in agony as he stumbles through the street after escaping from the vehicle.

The pilot’s family confirmed he was a married Saudi national working as a captain in Saudi Arabian Airlines.

The cause of the dispute between the man and his four killers was not revealed, although the airline pilot’s family said they had become drug addicts.

The pilot was reportedly still alive and was taken to a hospital in the Prince Fawaz neighbourhood but died without talking to police.

The dead man’s father, who was not named, said: “The killing incident occurred in a city in Jeddah, in the Prince Fawaz neighbourhood, where four young men tied their friend to his car, sprayed him with gasoline, and then set his body on fire.

“They set fire to him even though he was like body of their brother, then even tied him up inside the car.”

He said the only motivation people needed to know about was the fact that the attackers had been using drugs.

Only one of the perpetrators has been arrested so far, while the others remain at large as the investigation continues, according to local media.

Local media highlighted the fact that substance abuse was on the increase in the kingdom and even suggested that the de facto ruler of the Kingdom, Mohammed bin Salman, was not doing enough to tackle it.

Much of that revenue is used to fund the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and the militant group Hezbollah.

Known as the poor man’s cocaine, Captagon ‘s foothold in the Middle East has also seen it growing in popularity in Europe, Africa and even Asia.

Photo shows Bandar Al-Qarhadi, undated photo. A man allegedly tied him inside his car, poured gasoline on him and set him on fire in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (CEN)

The pills contain a complex mixture of chemicals that can cause serious mental problems and are highly addictive.

At the start of the month the growing problem of the drug was highlighted by Saudi Arabia’s Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority which revealed it had foiled two attempts to smuggle more than 2.4 million Captagon pills.

The pills were found hidden in consignments received at the Empty Quarter Port, where 1,213,378 Captagon pills were seized.

In the second attempt at the Jeddah Islamic Port where 1,215,353 pills hidden in a cement shipment were seized.

International Addiction Review journal statistics indicate the pills had a combined street value of between USD 24 million (GBP 20 million) and USD 60 million (GBP 49 million).

Photo shows the suspect in the murder of Bandar Al-Qarhadi, undated photo. He allegedly tied him inside his car, poured gasoline on him and set him on fire in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Jeddah Police/CEN)

The seizures are part of a massive increase in the amount of tablets flooding into the country – following on from two million Captagon tablets hidden inside a shipment of wooden planks for kitchens, in the Riyadh region on 30th November.

In Saudi Arabia, drug smuggling is punishable with death, although, in recent years, there have not been any executions carried out.