New York City subway bomber sentenced to life in prison
Al Jazeera
Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, had attempted to blow himself up inside a busy transit hub at rush hour in 2017.
A Bangladeshi man convicted of setting off a pipe bomb during rush hour in New York City’s busiest subway station, Times Square, was sentenced to life in prison. Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn had claimed he wanted to kill only himself and was not acting on behalf of Islamic State when he detonated his homemade bomb on December 11, 2017. US Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan, who imposed the sentence on Thursday, called the attack a “truly barbaric and heinous crime”, the Reuters news agency reported.
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