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Dhaka: A former army officer was hanged in Bangladesh on Sunday for his involvement in the killing of the country’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, nearly 45 years after the latter’s assassination in a military coup.
Deputy Inspector General of Prisons Mohammad Towhidul Islam told Efe news that the sacked army captain, Abdul Majed, was hanged to death in Dhaka Central Jail shortly after midnight.
Police had arrested Majed in the country’s capital on April 7 some 24 years after trial began against him and his fellow army officers for the killing of the “father of the nation”.
Several members of Mujib’s family were also killed.
Majed had filed a mercy petition to President Abdul Hamid after his arrest.
However, the President had rejected the clemency plea. (IANS)

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