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Bangladesh court sentences 152 to death for 2009 mutiny

A prisoner reacts as Police force him into a van after the verdict. Courtesy- Reuters

A special court in Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced to death more than 150 people among hundreds of border guards accused of murder and arson during a mutiny at their headquarters in 2009.

Some 850 people had been accused of involvement in the bloody rampage that broke out in the capital, Dhaka, and quickly spread to a dozen other towns, killing 74 people.

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