Five JMB men to die for bomb attack on Ctg Navy mosques

A tribunal has sentenced five activists of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death in a case filed for the 2015 bomb attack on two mosques at the Bangladesh Navy's Issa Khan Base in Chattogram, report agencies.
Judge Abdul Halim of the Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Tribunal delivered the verdict in the case on Wednesday.
The death-row convicts are M Sakhawat Hossain, a former member of the Navy, Abdul Mannan, Ramzan Ali, Babul Rahman aka Rony, and JMB member Abdul Gaffar.
Of the convicts, Sakhawat is at large, while the others were in court to hear the verdict.
All of the convicts were also fined Tk 50,000 each.
"This brutal attack on the people who protect our nation and its sovereignty was a direct attack on our county," said Public Prosecutor Manoranjan Das after the verdict.