B'desh cops among 26 awarded death for political murders
A Bangladeshi court on Monday sentenced 26 people, including 16 members of the country's elite anti-terrorism force, to death for murdering seven people in 2014 at the behest of a politician. The court concluded that politician Nur Hossain, at the time a member of PM Sheikh Hasina's party, paid the cops to kill a political rival and his aides.