CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladeshi court sentenced to death on Thursday 14 people including an Islamist party leader, a former security agency chief and a former deputy government minister for involvement in the country's biggest ever arms smuggling case.
Police seized 10 truck-loads of weapons in a raid on a state-owned jetty in the southeastern port city of Chittagong in 2004.
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