An Egyptian court on Tuesday (October 10th) sentenced eight people to death for allegedly killing three officers during the storming of a Cairo police station in 2013, AFP reported.
The court also handed life sentences to 50 other defendants, the official said, and jail terms of between five and 10 years to 10 more, a judicial official said.
Prosecutors said the defendants marched on Helwan police station in a southern suburb of Cairo in 2013 and fired at police inside from behind barricades, killing three and wounding scores.
They were then alleged to have torched the building and 20 police vehicles parked nearby.
The verdicts -- which can be appealed -- also saw defendants ordered to pay some 2.8 million pounds ($160,000) in damages for destroyed property and as compensation to the interior ministry.
