An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced six people to death for attacking a security checkpoint north of Cairo and killing a policeman. The Cairo Criminal Court handed various prison sentences to six others in the case that dates back to 2016. Militants attacked a security checkpoint in al-Khosous district in Qalubiya province, killed a non-commissioned police officer and attempted to kill other officers, prosecutors said. The court, headed by Judge Shaaban al-Shami, issued its verdicts in the case on Tuesday. It also jailed two people for life and four others, including three minors, for terms ranging from three to 15 years. Sentences against the accused in the case are not final. Defendants have the right to appeal the verdict before the Court of Cassation. They were sentenced for allegedly forming and supporting a terrorist group to try to topple the government and attack police and armed forces personnel. The prosecution accused the defendants of establishing and leading a terrorist group in 2016, contrary to the provisions of the law, aimed at disrupting the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their work and attacking police and armed forces, as well as training on the use of firearms to kill policemen. They also committed the crime of assassinating Mustafa Mohamed Amin, the police sergeant, deliberately while he was at a security point in the town of Al Khosous, according to the indictment, in addition to assassinating police officer Khalid Mohieddin and other security men. The indictment added that they "possessed firearms, including machine guns, rifles, cartridges and ammunition of which cannot be authorized to be used, and manufactured two explosive devices."