Dhaka, Sept 26 (NDTV.COM) A court sentenced five Islamic militants to 10 years in prison for bombings last year outside Dhaka's airport.

Judge S M Mojibur Rahman acquitted another defendant in his verdict delivered in Dhaka, prosecutor Fazlul Huq said.

Those found guilty are members of Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, a banned Islamic group blamed for a series of bombings across Bangladesh since August 2005.

The five included Ataur Rahman Sunny, one of the top commanders of the group, the prosecutor said.

The men will not appeal in higher court, Sunn told reporters before police escorted them away from the crowded courtroom.

Huq said the court found them guilty of bombings outside Dhaka's Zia International Airport on Aug 17, 2005, when more than 430 small homemade bombs exploded across the country in near simultaneous attacks.

The defendants were convicted of exploding at least five bombs outside the airport that day, but no casualties occurred there.

At least two people were killed and dozens injured in other bombings across the country the same day, police said.

Another Dhaka court yesterday sentenced five other Islamic militants to 78 years in prison for keeping illegal weapons and explosives, prosecutor Abdullah Mahmud Hasan said.

The defendants, also members of Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh, were arrested with guns, ammunition, explosives and bomb-making components at a house in the capital's Uttara residential area in January.