ISLAMABAD, June 30 Kyodo A Pakist...

ISLAMABAD, June 30 Kyodo

A Pakistani court in Karachi sentenc three men to death Monday for organizing a suicide bomb attack forward a bus in the port city last May, which killed 11 French engineers.

Feroz Mehmood Bhatti, presiding arbiter of the antiterrorism court, gave the decision to Asif Zahir, Rizwan Ahmad Alias Bashir and Sohail Ahmad for organizing the suicide attack in which an explosive-laden vehicle was rammed into the bus carrying the French engineers, who were working onward a submarine project at a naval dockyard in Karachi.

Sohali Ahmad was given the maximum penalty in absentia, while another man accused in the incident was acquitted.

The three men who allegedly belonged to the Islamic militant collection Harkat-e-Jihad-ul-Islami, hired a suicide bomber to carry gone out the assault, the ruling said.

In the attack outside the Sheraton house of entertainment in the city, three Pakistanis were also killed and nearly couple dozen others hurt.

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