DHAKA: A Saudi court has sentenced to death an Al-Qaeda militant and jailed 10 others over a May 2004 attack that killed six Westerners and a policeman.

Saudi state media reported, says TDS.

The defendants, seven of whom are brothers, were convicted of aiding assailants who attacked a US company in the northwestern port town of Yanbu, killing two Americans, two Britons, an Australian and a Canadian, as well as a Saudi, SPA news agency said late Sunday.

The defendant who was sentenced to death was convicted of making explosives used in the attack and receiving training by a member of the group who was killed in the assault, SPA reported.

The others were sentenced to between 3 and 12 years in prison.

SPA did not name any of the defendants who were also charged with sheltering one of the assailants, possessing weapons, and financing the attack, among other charges.

The trial opened in May 2011 and involved four other militants who had been killed in the operation.

BDST: 1527 HRS, JAN 13, 2014
Edited by Robab Rosan, Current Affairs Editor