CAIRO: The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday sentenced eight people to life imprisonment over the failed assassination of Alexandria"s security director in 2018. The court also upheld a January ruling that sentenced to death three other defendants, local media reports said. Among those sentenced was Yahya Moussa, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a government ministry spokesman under the group’s brief rule. He was convicted in absentia. The defendants were accused of attempting to kill Alexandria’s security director Mustafa El-Nemr in March 2018 by remotely detonating a car laden with explosives that targeted his convoy. The interior ministry said at the time that El-Nemr survived the attack but two of his guards were killed in the incident, and four others were injured. It also blamed the Brotherhood, banned in Egypt and designated a terrorist group, for the bombing.