Updated: 02/28/2013 21:35 | By Agence France-Presse

17 dead in Bangladesh after Islamist death sentence

Seventeen people were killed in clashes Thursday after a Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced a top Islamist opposition figure to death, police said.

17 dead in Bangladesh after Islamist death sentence

17 dead in Bangladesh after Islamist death sentence

At least 14 of them were shot dead in violence that erupted after a court in Dhaka found Delwar Hossain Sayedee, vice-president of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, guilty of eight crimes related to the 1971 liberation war with Pakistan.

Also among the dead were two policemen who were beaten to death after thousands of Jamaat supporters attacked a base in the northern district of Gaibandha, local police chief Maonjur Rahman told AFP.

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