BANGLADESH: TWO EXECUTED FOR MURDERS IN MYMENSINGH

December 18, 2008: two prisoners in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, were executed in the early hours of the morning, prison authorities said the next day. Dulal Mia, of Mymensingh, and Kabir Hossain, of Dhaka, were hanged, district prison chief Shah Alam informed reporters. The bodies were handed over to relatives. According to separate case statements, Kabir was sentenced to death for strangling his wife in 1997, and Dulal for raping a girl to death in 2002. Additional district magistrate Rashida Ferdous, civil surgeon SM Shamsul Alam, assistant superintendent of police Apel Mahmud, senior jail super Nurul Islam Mollah were among those present during the hangings, said the district jailer. (Sources: Bdnews24.com, 22/12/2008)