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MUMBAI, India (AP) - Three Muslim men on Wednesday received the first death sentences for a series of bombs that ripped through India's financial capital in 1993, killing 257 people in the country's deadliest terrorist attack.
Parvez Shaikh, Mushtaq Tarani and Abdul Ghani Turk appeared calm as they were sentenced to death by Justice Pramod Kode. All three were convicted of planting explosives in Mumbai on March 12, 1993.
More than 100 people were convicted of involvement in the plot, thought to be an act of revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving more than 800 dead, most of them Muslims.
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