Death for 5 in 2006 India blast

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A special court on Wednesday sentenced five convicts to death in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings case, India's The Hindu reports.
The five — Kamal Ansari, Faisal Shaikh, Estesham Siddiqui, Naveed Khan and Asif Bashir Khan — were given death penalty for committing murder and carrying out terrorist acts.
The rest were given life imprisonment for offences including waging war, said The Hindu.
The court recently convicted 12 persons and acquitted Abdul Wahid Din Mohammed Shaikh.
Seven serial blasts ripped through Mumbai's suburban railway network on 11 July 2006, leaving at least 180 dead and several injured.



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