Bahrain jails 6 people to 10 years over attack

Manama: A Bahraini court sentenced six people to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after they were convicted of carrying out a bombing that wounded two people, the official BNA news agency reported.

The group was accused of “setting tyres ablaze using a gas cylinder to create as much damage as possible to public and private property”, public prosecution chief Muhanna Al Shayji was quoted as saying.

They are also charged with “intentionally causing a fire for terrorist aims that wounded” a woman and her son.

The statement did not say where or when the bombing took place, but judicial sources said the attack was in 2012.