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ISLAMABAD, May 24 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistan Navy court has awarded death sentence to five officers who had planned to hijack a navy warship and attack one of the U.S. navy's refuel ships in 2014, family of one of the convicts and local media said on Tuesday.
The security forces had foiled the plan on September 2014 and killed the group leader, Owais Jakhrani, a retired navy officer, and another militant while four militants were arrested. Jakhrani was earlier dismissed from service because of his alleged links with the militant groups.
Saeed Ahmed, a retired army major, told the media that a navy court has handed death penalty to his son, Sub-Lieutenant Hammad Ahmed, and four other naval officers, according to Dawn TV.
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