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                   India Executes Man for 1993 Mumbai Attacks

   by VOA News

   India executed Yakub Memon early Thursday for his role in the 1993
   Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people.

   The 53-year-old was hanged at a prison in the western city of Nagpur
   after his final plea for clemency was denied.

   Memon was one of 11 people originally sentenced to die for the attacks,
   but the only one actually executed.  The others had their sentences
   changed to life in prison.

   He was convicted in 2007 of plotting and financing the bombings that
   hit multiple sites in Mumbai, including the Bombay Stock Exchange, Air
   India offices, hotels and a movie theater.

   His older brother, Tiger Memon, and gang boss Dawood Ibrahim were the
   alleged masterminds of the attacks.  They remain at large.
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