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Kyrgyzstan

A court in southern Kyrgyzstan sentenced four people...

A court in southern Kyrgyzstan sentenced four people to death and a fifth - a Chinese national - to life imprisonment for bomb attacks in 1998 in which five people died

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A court in southern Kyrgyzstan sentenced four people to death and a fifth - a Chinese national - to life imprisonment for bomb attacks in 1998 in which five people died.The [unidentified] members of a multi-national criminal group had planted bombs inside a minibus and in a mosque in the town of Osh.They had been given long terms of imprisonment in an earlier trial, but the prosecutor-general appealed against the ruling, and the case was reviewed.
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  • (Sources: Kyrgyz-Press monitored by BBC, 16/03/2001)