6 get death over Ashulia bank robbery

Staff Correspondent: A Dhaka Court has sentenced six people to death penalty and one to life imprisonment in the incident of bank robbery at Ashulia, the outskirts of the capital, last year.

Judge S M Kuddus of Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Court handed down the verdict on Tuesday morning.

Robbers committed robbery at Kathgoda bazaar branch of Bangladesh Commerce Bank on April 21 last year. Bank official among eight people were killed as robbers shot and stabbed them while they had fled after robbery.

risingbd/Dhaka/May 31, 2016/Mamun/A K Azad