The International Crimes Tribunal, a Bangladeshi court formed to hear cases during the war that resulted the country's separation from Pakistan, convicted them of alleged killings, abduction, confinement, torture, arson attack and looting, local media reported.

The Court found the suspects Abdul Jabbar Mondol and his two sons, Jachhijar Rahman and Abdul Wahed Mondol, and Ranju Miah and Montaz Ali Bepari guilty of the alleged offences brought against them.

According to Bangldeshi law, the death row convicts have the right to appeal the decision at the Supreme Court within a month of the verdict.

ILKHA