A Chattogram Tribunal on Wednesday sentenced five members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a case filed in connection to the blasts at a mosque inside Bangladesh Navy's Issa Khan Base in Chattogram.
Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Tribunal Judge Abdul Halim pronounced the verdict and also fined them Tk 50,000 each.
The death row convicts are Abdul Mannan, Ramjan Ali, Bablu Rahman, Abdul Gaffar and M Shakhawat Hossain, a former member of the Bangladesh Navy. Of them, Shakhawat was tried in absentia.
On December 18, 2015, at least 24 people, mostly civilians, were injured in two incidents of blasts at two mosques inside the Issa Khan Base.
Later, M Abu Syed, Marshal Commander of the Naval Provost of the Bangladesh Navy, filed a case with EPZ Police Station in this connection.
In September 2015, Times of India reported citing intelligence sources that a little-known militant group had planned to carry out bomb explosions on over 100 government and non-government installations in the Chattogram Port area in collaboration with several other outlawed Islamist groups.
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