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Court Sentences Bombay Attacker To Hang

May 06 2010

India

The surviving Pakistani gunman in the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Bombay (Mumbai) was sentenced to death Thursday by an Indian court, Reuters reports.

Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, 22, was convicted Monday of being one of 10 gunmen involved in the coordinated three-day assault. He was filmed shooting into a crowd at the city's main railway station, where 52 people died.

A total of 166 people were killed in the attack, which Indian authorities say was planned by the banned...

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