Indian court orders death for 38 for deadly 2008 serial bomb blasts

FILE PHOTO: People crowd on a road after a series of bombings in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad July 26, 2008. REUTERS/Amit Dave

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - An Indian court on Friday sentenced 38 Muslim men to death and ordered life in prison for 11 others for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 in the city of Ahmedabad that killed more than 50 people, lawyers said.

The explosions had badly shaken the western state of Gujarat, where Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 are believed to have killed thousands, mostly Muslims.