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Eleven persons were yesterday sentenced to death in two separate cases of murder in Bangladesh.
Of them, a tribunal in the southeastern port city of Chittagong yesterday sentenced six people to death for killing a teenage boy in 2011.
According to the prosecution, the victim, Himel Das Supen, had gone missing on May 8, 2011. Himel’s body was recovered from a hill in Bandarbban on May 14.
Two accused in the case confessed that Supen’s uncle had abducted him and then killed him for property.
After examining the records and witnesses, the tribunal handed down the verdict.
Meanwhile, a court in Rangpur district town yesterday sentenced five people to death for killing a mentally-challenged woman in 2006.
The additional district and sessions judge sentenced five, including brother of the victim, to death for killing Anjila Khatun.
According to the prosecution, the motivation for the murder was a piece of land.
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