Bangladesh executes Huji chief Mufti Hannan, 2 aides
Mufti Abdul Hannan was involved in the plotting and carrying out all the terror attacks by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh.
Apart from Hannan, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain alias Ripon were also executed.
They had carried out a grenade attack on the then British high commissioner Anwar Choudhury in Sylhet on May 21, 2004.
“Hannan and Sharif were hanged at Kashimpur High Security Prison [in Gazipur] and Delwar at Sylhet Central Jail at 10:00pm,” Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin, inspector general of prisons, told The Daily Star.
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