6 defendants referred to mufti in the security checkpoint terrorist attack

The Cairo Criminal Court referred papers of six defendants accused of attacking El Khasous security checkpoint to Egypt’s Mufti before sentencing them to death.

The six persons, who are implicated in carrying out the attack on a security checkpoint in Qalyoubia’s El-Khasous city, will remain in custody till the mufti’s opinion regarding the death penalty.

The court set August 28 to give its final verdict in the case.