Thai court gives 2 death sentences in 2015 Bangkok shrine bombing
What's new: The ruling comes nearly a decade after the blast at Erawan Shrine killed 20 people and wounded more than 120.
A Thai court sentenced two men to death over the 2015 bombing at Bangkok's Erawan Shrine, the deadliest attack in Thailand's modern history. The court found Bilal Mohammad and Yusufu Mierali guilty over the Aug. 17, 2015 blast at the shrine, a site popular with foreign tourists in central Bangkok. Twenty people were killed and more than 120 were injured. Both men are from China's Uyghur minority and had pleaded not guilty. The case dragged on for about 10 years after an investigation that drew scrutiny over evidence handling, surveillance gaps and conflicting accounts about who planted the bomb. Thai authorities had also issued warrants for 13 other suspects.