A Bangladesh court has sentenced to death 10 leaders and activists from a banned armed group for a plot in 2000 to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by planting bombs at one of her rallies.
Judge Mamtaz Begum sentenced the suspects on Sunday in the capital, Dhaka, and ordered them to be shot to death, which is unusual in Bangladesh, where most executions take place by hanging.
Prosecutors said two bombs were found a day before Hasina was scheduled to address a rally at a college campus in the southern town of Kotalipara.
