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Bahrain sentences 8 to life in jail over terror charges

MANAMA, April 28 (KUNA) -- A Bahraini criminal court sentenced on Thursday eight people to life in prison, five people up to five years and a defendant to one year in jail over terror-related charges.
Nationalities of two other defendants were revoked and their seizures were confiscated, Public Prosecution said in a statement received by Bahrain News Agency (BNA).
The statement added that several persons congregated in 2014 in an area, north of Manama, when policemen moved to the site, the persons attacked them with an explosive device.
The court found three defendants guilty of detonating a blast that wounded a policeman, as well as possessing explosives and damaging police vehicles, the prosecution said, quoted by BNA. (end) mga.hm