Suspects to stand trial for setting up blast in Bahrain
Manama : The Public Prosecution referred yesterday 11 suspects to the High Criminal Court for trial on December 7 in the case of a terror blast. The incident occurred on Shaikh Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah Avenue, near Al-Nuwaiderat roundabout, on June 30. A Bahraini woman was killed in the incident.
Of the 11 accused, nine are in the police custody. All of them were accused of premeditated murder, sharing intelligence information with a foreign country, possessing explosives and weapons, training on the use of weapons and explosives to commit terror crimes and harbouring a terror suspect.
Terror Crime Prosecutor Khalid Al Temimi said the Public Prosecution had completed its investigation into the case.
One of the suspects, a fugitive in Iran and who works for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, tasked the two perpetrators of the crime to carry out the explosion. He provided them with the explosive device and after surveying police movement at the site of the incident.
The two perpetrators placed the bomb and detonated it killing the Bahraini woman, who was driving her car, and injuring her children.
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