CAIRO: A total of 16 people allegedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood have been referred to a military trial Sunday over killing three military cadets in an April bomb attack, Youm7 reported.
The defendants are from ten different towns in Kafr el-Sheikh; in July, nine were arrested over the bombing, which also injured two students.
A blast targeted a room located in the Kafr el-Sheikh Sports Stadium, in which the students were waiting for their bus on April 15.
In May, six convicts were hanged to death following a military trial that received a wave of criticism over “lack of evidence” in a case known in the media as “Arab Sharkas cell.” Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis mourned the defendants, as some of them were reportedly members of the now-Islamic State affiliate.
Hundreds have been sentenced to death in military and civilian trials over violence that preceded and followed the 2013 ouster of President Mohamed Muslim, But only thus far only seven have been executed, including the Arab Sharkas defendants and another man in a civilian trial for throwing children off a rooftop during a protest.