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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi newspaper is reporting that a prince has been flogged over an undisclosed crime, just weeks after another was executed for killing a man in a melee.

The daily newspaper Okaz reported Wednesday that the prince was flogged in a prison in the Red Sea city of Jiddah on Monday. It did not elaborate, nor did it name the royal from the kingdom’s huge Al Saud family.

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Saudi state media did not report on the flogging.

The flogging comes after the Oct. 18 announcement by the Interior Ministry that it had executed Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir in Riyadh for shooting to death another man.

The sentences come as the kingdom faces financial troubles from low global oil prices amid its war in Yemen.