Five Mujib assassins executed

The five death row convicts were hanged past midnight,  hours after the Supreme Court rejected their review plea, jail officials said. The process to execute the assassins of Sheikh Mujib, the father of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, began one minute past midnight and ended 40 minutes later, they said.

The five hanged convicts are sacked lieutenant colonels Syed Faruq Rahman, Sultan Shariar Rashid Khan, Mohiuddin Ahmed and A K M Mohiuddin and sacked major Bazlul Huda.