Dhaka: Twenty-six people, including a former city councillor extradited from India and three senior officers from Bangladesh’s elite security force, were yesterday sentenced to death for brutal murders of seven people in Narayanganj in 2014.

“They (26 convicts) shall be hanged by neck until they are dead,” said Narayanganj’s District and Sessions Judge Sayed Enayet Hossain as the convicts were brought to the dock under heavy security vigil.