Five Sentenced in Deadly Bombing of Shiite Shrine
From Times Wire Reports
A court convicted five Muslim militants in connection with a bombing that killed 45 people at a Shiite shrine last year, a judge said. Two of the defendants were sentenced to death and the others to life in prison.
The men, all Pakistanis, were arrested two days after the March 19, 2005, attack in Fatehpur, a remote town about 500 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad.
The bomb exploded after about 20,000 people, mostly Shiite Muslims but also some Sunnis, gathered at the shrine of a 19th century Shiite saint.
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