Uzbek citizen Sayfullo Saipov, in charge of a terrorist attack in New York in 2017, has been sentenced by a US court to eight consecutive life terms plus an additional 260 years in jail.
The verdict was announced on May 17, according to the US Department of Justice.
US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland stated that the sentence ensures Saipov will spend the remnants of his life in federal prison for the ISIS terrorist attack that claimed the lives of eight innocent people.
Damian Williams, US District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, explained that Saipov received eight years in prison for killing eight people in the attack and an additional 260 years for attempting to kill 18 others, including four children.
Saipov, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, carried out the attack by driving a rented truck into a bike lane, resulting in eight deaths and injuring 12 others. He admitted acting on behalf of ISIS and referred to himself as a "soldier" of the group. Saipov will serve his sentence at ADX Florence, a maximum-security federal prison in Colorado where other high-profile convicts are held, including Dzhokhar Sarnayev, convicted for the Boston Marathon bombing.
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