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Bangladesh executes JMB militant leader for killing of two judges in 2005

Xinhua, October 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladesh on Saturday executed Asadul Islam Arif, a leader of banned militant local outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who was convicted of killing two judges in 2005.

"Arif has been hanged to death (Saturday) at 10:30 p.m. (local time)," Jannatul Farhad, official of a jail in the country's southwestern Khulna district, about 140 km southwest of capital Dhaka, told journalists at the scene.

Earlier in the day Bangladesh ordered to execute death row JMB militant.

Senior assistant judges - Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed - were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Jhalakathi town located in the southern coastal part of Bangladesh on Nov. 14, 2005 when they were going to the court on a microbus.

The suicide bomb attack on the judges followed the series bomb blasts by JMB men across the South Asian country in 2005.

JMB, campaigning for the establishment of Islamic rule in Bangladesh, carried out a series of bombings in 63 out of the country's 64 districts, including capital Dhaka on Aug. 17, 2005, leaving two people dead and 150 others injured.

Hundreds of JMB leaders and activists were then rounded up while six top leaders of the group, including Shaikh Abdur Rahman, were hanged in 2007. Endit