Fri, Apr 26, 2024
28.12°C Kathmandu
Air Quality in Kathmandu: 285World
Bangladesh sentence 8 to death in bombing case
A court in Dhaka has sentenced eight people, including a top leader of a banned Islamist group, to death for their roles in a bombing at a New Year's celebration concert 13 years ago.bookmarkA court in Bangladesh's capital has sentenced eight people, including a top leader of a banned Islamist group, to death for their roles in a bombing at a New Year's celebration concert 13 years ago.
Published at : June 23, 2014
Updated at : June 23, 2014 12:47
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Judge Ruhul Amin told a packed court Monday that six others had been sentenced to life in prison for the bombing that killed 10 people and injured dozens of others at a park in downtown Dhaka in 2001.
The leader of the banned group Harkatul Jihad, Mufti Abdul Hannan, is among those sentenced to death.
The group says that New Year celebrations, such as singing and dancing, are anti-Islamic.
Four of the convicts were tried in absentia.