Bangladesh sentences seven to death for 2016 cafe attack
Islamist militants found guilty of planning attack on cafe in July 2016 that killed 22 people
A Bangladesh court has handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian country’s worst such incident.
“Charges against them were proved beyond any doubt. The court gave them the highest punishment,” the public prosecutor Golam Sarwar Khan told reporters after the verdict in the capital, Dhaka, amid tight security.