Terror suspects to be tried on June 21
Manama : The closing arguments in the trial of 17 men suspected of receiving overseas financial support to construct bombs to target police officers will be heard on June 21 .
The Bahrainis have, according to the Terror Crimes Prosecution, formed a terrorist group to make improvised bombs and weapons to carry out terrorist attacks and target police officers. The group was dismantled in February last year, according to the court files.
Overseeing the group were allegedly the first and second defendant who are living overseas and were responsible of injecting 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 and Qurayyah, causing injures to a number of policemen, according to a statement issued earlier by the Terror Crimes Prosecution.
The same statement also indicated that eight members of the group were captured, while nine of them including the first and second suspects are still at large.
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