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United StatesManhattan subway bomber sentenced to life in prison ReutersJonathan Stempel 3 minutes read A Bangladeshi man convicted of setting off a pipe bomb during rush hour in New York City's busiest subway station, Times Square, was sentenced on Thursday to life plus 30 years in prison. Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn, had claimed he wanted to kill only himself and was not acting on behalf of Islamic State when he detonated his homemade bomb on Dec. 11, 2017. No one died and four people were injured in the explosion, which led to the temporary closure of the station and the adjacent Port Au...

A Bangladeshi immigrant was sentenced to life in a US prison Thursday for a botched attempt to unleash carnage with a bomb attack in a crowded New York subway passage in the name of the Islamic State group.

A Bangladeshi man convicted of setting off a pipe bomb during rush hour in New York City’s busiest subway station, Times Square, was sentenced to life in prison. Akayed Ullah, 31, of Brooklyn had claimed he wanted to kill only himself and was not acting on behalf of Islamic State when he detonated his homemade bomb on December 11, 2017. US Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan, who imposed the sentence on Thursday, called the attack a “truly barbaric and heinous crime”, the Reuters news agency reported. No one died; however, four people including Ullah were injured in the explosion, which ...

The Bangladeshi immigrant detonated a pipe bomb strapped to his chest on Dec. 11, 2017 after reading ISIS propaganda and recruiting materials.

BBC News Published image captionAkayed Ullah detonated the bomb in New York City's busiest subway station A man who set off a pipe bomb during rush hour in a New York subway station has been sentenced to life in prison. Akayed Ullah, 31, detonated the bomb in Times Square station, which is the busiest in New York City, on 11 December 2017. He later claimed he had only wanted to kill himself and was not acting on behalf of the Islamic State (IS) group. US Circuit Judge Richard Sullivan described the attack as a "truly barbaric and heinous crime". "They were just people on the way to work or sc...