BANGLADESH: FIVE TO DIE FOR KILLING CHILD IN MIRPUR
October 14, 2009: five people in Bangladesh were sentenced to death for killing a child in the Mirpur area of Dhaka. Judge Md Atiqul Islam of Dhaka's Court sentenced Nazrul Islam, Zakirul Hossain, Niamat, Maqbul and Ali Reza and acquitted three others. A long running feud with vegetable trader Jabbar Ali of Mirpur Market resulted in the abduction of a child named Pappu on January 4, 2008. He was brutally murdered. (Sources: New Nation, 15/10/2009)
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