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10 get death for 2001 CPB rally bomb attack
DHAKA, Jan 20, 2020 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today sentenced 10 members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) in a case lodged over murder of five people in bomb attack on a rally of CPB in the capital in 2001.
The court also acquitted two others from the case.
Dhaka Additional 3rd Metropolitan Sessions Judge Robiul Alam passed the verdict at around 11.20am in a crowded courtroom.
Five people were killed and 20 others injured in the attack on Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) rally in capital’s Paltan Maidan on January 20, 2001.
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