Four suspects involved in street bomb detonation

Manama, May 17 (BNA): An unidentified object near a mosque on Shaikh Khalifa Al Kabeer Avenue was reported by Muharraq Police Station to Terror Crime Prosecution (TCP) headquarters on May 10, Chief Prosecutor Advocate General Ahmed Al Hammadi stated. A police force went to the site where an explosive device had been detonated without causing human causalities and another device, a hoax bomb, was found. He said police investigations concluded that four suspects, including one young woman, were involved in the plot. The first suspect and the fourth, the young woman, were arrested. The first suspect confessed he received from the second suspect, still at large, an explosive device to be detonated on a street. The explosive device and hoax bomb were delivered to the first suspect alongside instructions to cause a detonation through a remote control. On execution day, the first suspect asked the fourth suspect to drive him where the third suspect who had the explosive device was waiting for him. They then headed to the crime scene, where the first and second suspects planted the explosive device and hoax bomb near an electric box. They waited near the site and as a police patrol passed by, they detonated the bomb. The fourth suspect hid the suspects even they were aware they were wanted by security authorities. Al Hammadi said that the first suspect re-enacted the crime, while the fourth suspect denied the charges. The prosecution charged the suspects with the detonation of a bomb and the possession of explosives that could endanger people's lives and properties, with the purpose of carrying out terrorist acts. The prosecution ordered the imprisonment of the suspects pending further investigations and stepping up action to bring the other two suspects to justice.