Bangladesh executes 3 Islamists over attack on British envoy
Bangladesh executed Harkat-ul Jihad Islami group leader Abdul Hannan and two aides on Wednesday over the 2004 grenade attack on British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, days after their clemency pleas were turned down. The trio was convicted and sentenced to death in 2008 for the attack on a Muslim shrine that killed three people and wounded the then British envoy.