, March 17 -- A Pirojpur court on Monday convicted five people and sentenced them to life imprisonment for shooting and killing a man during a robbery in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur district in 2005.

Pirojpur Additional district and Session Judge Moktagir Alam handed down the punishment.

The convicts are-Salam Hawladar, 50, Md Alamgir, 58, A Malek, 66, Firoz Molla, 57 and Ayub Ali, 58. Three of them tried in absentia.

The court also fined Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer three months more in rigorous imprisonment.

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