In a shocking revelation, three men have confessed in a Saudi Arabian court that they buried alive five Asian men — suspected to be Indians —  after torturing them for hours at a farm in the eastern province in 2010, said a report.

The decomposing bodies of the five workers were found in the farm at Safwa, Qatif, earlier this month. The police have arrested 25 people, including expatriates and Saudi nationals in connection with the killing, reported the Arab News.

One man, describing the horrific incident, said he was driving around with a friend using drugs and alcohol when he received a call from another friend at around 10 pm asking him to rush immediately to a farm.

“We had alcohol with us when we arrived at the farm,” the report quoted him as saying.

“We saw five workers with their hands tied in the seating area. When the friend with me asked why they were tied, our host said that one of them had sexually harassed his sponsor’s daughter and other women,” the man told the court.

“I saw that the five Indian workers were tied and unconscious, just before we went to another room to drink alcohol and smoke hashish. While we were drinking, I heard one of them screaming so I went out and slapped him in the face,” he said.

“Later the friend who came with me left the room with a stick and hit the worker until he bled. We then took them all into another room,” the man said recalling the day's event.

“The three of us continued beating the workers on different parts of their bodies while continuing to drink and smoke,” the man said.
“We kept drinking, smoking and beating them,” he said.

“Our host suggested we bury them alive in a hole behind the entrance gate of the farm. Then we tied them again with ropes and adhesive tape so they could not move,” the report quoted him as saying in the court.

The man said their host brought his pickup truck and the three loaded the workers onto it. They then dumped them into a 2.5-meter-deep hole, he said.

“We buried them alive with all their identity cards. At the time for the dawn prayer my friend and I left the farm, while our host remained there alone.”

The barbaric incident came to light when a tenant on the farm stumbled upon the decomposing remains while clearing the land, said the Arab News report.
 
“Investigators then found an engraved gold ring and residence cards that helped them to identify some of the victims and several suspects. The bodies were found with ropes around their arms and legs, and the their mouths filled with cotton and covered with duct tape,” the report added.