Court to hear terror group case on April 25

Manama, Apr. 5 (BNA): Thorough investigations had been completed in the case of a terror group formation and the suspects were referred to the High Criminal Court for a hearing on April 25, Chief of Terror Crime Prosecution, Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi, said. Fifteen terror suspects, nine of them in custody, were referred to the court on charges of organising and running a terrorist group and illegal militia training on weapons and explosives, manufacturing, possessing, transporting weapons and causing several explosions one of which injured a security man and a woman who was passing at the blast scene. The Public Prosecution received a report on July 5, 2017 from the Criminal Investigation Directorate informing that some terrorist elements had created two cells affiliated with the blacklisted Saraya Al Ashtar (Al Ashtar Brigades). Investigations indicated that the first suspect in cohort with the second, third, fourth and fifth suspects who are fugitives and wanted by Bahrain, set up the two terrorist cells. The first suspect assumed the control of both cells. A group of suspects were recruited and sent to receive militia training abroad in order to carry out terrorist attacks in Bahrain. A group of suspects were tasked to establish warehouses to conceal the weapons, explosive materials used in manufacturing them. A large cache of weapons and explosives were seized. Members of the group carried out terrorist attacks in 2017, including the detonation of a homemade explosive device in Bu Saiba area on February 4, 2017. The blast damaged several cars. The suspects also detonated a homemade explosive device in Sanabis area on February 23, 2017 which injured a security man and a woman who happened to be passing at the blast scene. Several cars and nearby buildings were damaged in the blast. They also hurled a hand grenade on the security men in Samaheej area on April 8, 2017.