Manhattan Subway Bomber Sentenced to Life in Prison

Manhattan Subway Bomber Sentenced to Life in Prison
Akayed Ullah. New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission via AP
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NEW YORK—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 the ISIS terrorist group when he detonated his homemade bomb on Dec. 11, 2017.