Turkish court sentences nightclub shooting suspect to life in jail

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Mon, 2020-09-07 17:05

ISTANBUL: A Turkish court sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday the main suspect in a gun attack at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day, 2017, in which 39 people were killed, Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.
Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was handed the equivalent of 40 life sentences without parole, plus an additional 1,368 years in prison, Anadolu said.

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