Shawdesh Desk:

A tribunal in Chattogram has handed death to five members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a case filed in connection to the blasts at two mosques inside Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan base in Chattogram.

Judge Abdul Halim of the Chattogram Anti-Terrorism Tribunal delivered the verdict in the case on Wednesday.

The death-row convicts are M Sakhawat Hossain, Abdul Mannan, Ramzan Ali, Babul Rahman aka Rony, and Abdul Gaffar.

Of the convicts, Sakhawat remain absconding since the incident.

On December 18, 2015, at least 24 people, mostly civilians, were injured in two incidents of explosions at two mosques inside the Bangladesh Navy’s Issa Khan Base.