Bangladesh court sentences 10 Islamic militants to death

DHAKA, June 20: A court in Bangladesh sentenced Thursday 10 Islamic militants to death after finding them guilty of assisting a suicide bombing that killed eight people, a prosecutor said.



A judge announced the sentence to a crowded court room in the capital Dhaka, special public prosecutor Rafiqul Islam told AFP. "They (the militants) assisted the suicide bomber in making the bomb, providing information, planning and carrying out the attack," Islam said. [break]

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