'Interpol red alert to nab Sheikh Mujib's killers'

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Thirty-four years after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in a military coup, the country's Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence on five of his killers.

Seven others, who are absconding, were also convicted to hang by the apex court. One of them has been confirmed by the Foreign Office to have died in Zimbabwe recently. The apex court upheld the death sentence awarded to the 12 killers by a lower court in 1998.

According to The New Nation, the Interpol issued a 'red alert' to nab fugitives linked to the murder of Sheikh Mujib.