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NEW YORK (AFP) — A US jury on Tuesday convicted a Bangladeshi driver for detonating a bomb in a crowded New York subway passage near Times Square, allegedly inspired by the Islamic State group. Akayed Ullah, 28, who lived in Brooklyn after migrating to the United States in 2011, was found guilty by a unanimous jury as Americans went to the polls in the midterm elections. His trial in Manhattan lasted a week. The December […]
by Shafiqul Alam Agence France Presse Bangladesh police scrambled Tuesday for details about alleged New York subway bomber Akayed Ullah, but uncovered few early leads that might shed light on what might have driven him to try and kill commuters with a homemade bomb. US police say the 27-year-old immigrant from Bangladesh set off a crude bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York subway passage on Monday but the device failed to […]
