Bangladesh sentences 19 to death, 30 to jail over 2004 deadly grenade blasts

Bangladeshi policemen stand guard in front of a special court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 10, 2018. A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced 19 people to death, including two former ministers, over a case of grenade attacks at now Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's rally in 2004 that killed at least 24 people. Another 19 people including former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rahman, the current opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman, were sentenced to life imprisonment. (Xinhua)