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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani court convicted five Islamic militants Wednesday in connection with a bombing that killed 45 people at a Shiite shrine last year, a judge said. Two of the defendants were sentenced to death.
The men, all Pakistanis, were arrested two days after the March 19, 2005, attack in Fatehpur, a remote town about 500 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad. The explosion occurred as religious pilgrims were eating dinner.
Judge Mohammed Ismail told The Associated Press by telephone that he issued the ruling Wednesday.
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