Bangladesh, July 9 -- A court has sentenced three people to death over the rape and murder of a child in Mymensingh's Dhobaura Upazila.

On Thursday, 25 days after the incident, Judge Sudipta Sarkar of the Child Violence Suppression Tribunal delivered the verdict, Public Prosecutor Bazlul Karim Chowdhury said.

The three convicts are Arif Mia, 19, Hasan Rakib, 20, and Abu Saim, 18.

The court also fined each of them Tk 200,000.

In a separate trial, Judge Mesbah Uddin Ahmed of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal sentenced a 16-year-old accused to 10 years in prison.

The verdicts were delivered in the presence of the minor.

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