Dhaka, April 18 -- A Chattogram court has sentenced two men to death for killing three siblings in the Bayezid Bostami area two decades ago.

Chattogram First Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Kamal Hossain Sikder handed down the verdict on Thursday.

The convicts are Abul Kashem alias Jamai Kashem and Yusuf alias Baitta Yusuf. Two defendants were present in the court during the verdict.

In 2017, the two other accused in the case, Md Nasir alias Gittu Nasir, an activist of Jamaat-e-Islami's student front Chhatra Shibir and Md Foyez Munna, were removed from the case after being killed in a 'gunfight'.

Saiful Islam, who died in the incident, and Nasir, the suspect, were both associated with the politics of Islami Chhatra Shi...