Witnesses to be heard in arms device smuggling case

Manama

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 Prosecution witnesses will be heard on November 12 in the trial of five suspects implicated in connection with smuggling bomb-making equipment into Bahrain. They are standing at the High Criminal Court, but their fifth co-defendant is still at large.  

The Bahraini defendants, including a teenager were aboard the bus which was busted in the King Fahad Causeway on March 19 carrying 140 detonators,  41 electrical circuits, a remote-controlled device and mobile phones used to detonate explosives. 

Among them also the bus driver, who earlier confessed before the Terror Crime Prosecution to knowing that the devices were on board as he drove passengers to Bahrain across the King Fahad Causeway. They were being transported from Iraq by a Bahraini passenger and its contents were destined to be used in terrorist attacks, according to prosecutors. 

 The teenager was allegedly being used as a mule to smuggle contraband equipment to Bahrain via Saudi Arabia. 

 The defendants have been sent to trial by the Terror Crime Prosecution on grounds of smuggling and possessing explosive materials and receiving weapons training. 

 The Terror Crime Prosecution stated earlier in a statement that the fifth defendant was in Iraq and the bus driver agreed to keep the materials with the teenager to avoid suspicion, due to his young age.