A Yemeni court Saturday adjourned for another week the trial of 15 people accused of a raft of terrorist offences, including the October 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg, to allow lawyers to study the case, a judicial source said.
Special state security court chairman Mohammed al-Jarmuzi adjourned the trial "to allow lawyers to familiarise themselves with the files," the source said.
The next session was set for June 26.
Last Saturday, Jarmuzi adjourned the session after none of the defendants was represented by legal counsel.
The defendants, accused of forming an armed group to endanger security in Yemen, face a variety of charges, principally the attack on the Limburg as it prepared to enter Ash-Shir port, off Yemen's south-eastern coast nearly two years ago.
One Bulgarian crew member was killed and 12 others wounded when an explosion ripped through the tanker.
Other charges include planning attacks on US ambassador Edmund Hall and other foreign missions in Sanaa, as well as attacks on Yemeni intelligence service offices and the murder of police officers.
The trial of 11 suspects charged with bombing the US destroyer Cole opened here June 6 but was immediately adjourned for one month to allow further investigations.
They are accused of involvement in the October 2000 bombing of the Cole in Aden port which left 17 US sailors dead.
The trial had been delayed by US insistence it be preceded by the arrest of all suspects in the case.
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