Trial in terror case adjourned till Jan 13
Seventeen people have received overseas financial support to construct bombs in order to target police officers, the High Criminal Court has heard.
The Bahrainis have, according to the Terror Crimes Prosecution, formed a terrorist group to make improvised bombs and weapons purposely to carry out terrorist attacks and target police officers.
The group was dismantled in February this year, according to court files. Overseeing the group were allegedly the first and the second defendants, who are living overseas and were responsible for transferring funds to finance the group’s terrorist
activities.
They are being tried in absentia.
The group is said to have detonated bombs across Maqaba, Janabiya, Budaiya as well as Qurayyah, causing injures to a number of policemen, according to a statement issued earlier by the Terror Crimes Prosecution.
Their trial was adjourned yesterday until January 13.
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