Series bomb blasts: 4 get imprisonment until death

A Dhaka court has sentenced four people to imprisonment until death in a case filed over series bomb blasts in 2005.

Judge Momtaz Begum of the Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 delivered the verdict in presence of three convicts on Thursday afternoon.

The convicts are Kawsar Alam Sumon, Yunus Mia Kawsar, Mehedi Habib Mohammad Rafiq, and Ashraf alias Ashraful Islam alias Sharif.

The court also acquitted eight others from the charges as they were found not guilty.

The convicts exploded several bombs at a room near Mymensingh Agricultural University’s TSC on AUgust 17, 2005. One student of the university named Md Imtiaz was injured in the incident.