MANAMA: Four Bahrainis were sentenced to life in jail yesterday for planting a bomb targeting police and civilians in March, the state news agency reported, as sectarian and political tensions continue to trouble the tiny Gulf state.
The BNA news agency did not name the convicted men or state their motive, but a similar bomb attack in the same northern village in August that wounded five security officers was blamed on a “terrorist group”.
Two of those convicted yesterday — for the attempted murder of an Asian worker whose fingers were blown off when trying to move the bomb — confessed to police before the trial, BNA said. The other two were not caught and were sentenced in absentia.
REUTERS
