Russians guilty of Euro 2016 attack on UK fan

Marseille: Two Russians were convicted of permanently disabling a British football supporter in southern France during the Uefa Euro 2016 tournament.

Spartak Moscow fan Pavel Kosov was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Mikhail Ivkin was given a threeyear sentence.

They had been on trial in the southern French port city of Marseille accused of “gang violence with weapons, leading to permanent infirmity”.

They had been held in prison in France since March 2018.

The pair attacked Andrew Bache, 55 and from Portsmouth, during the European football championships in June 2016.

His son Harry represented him in court and faced his father’s assailants.

Mr Bache’s lawyer, Olivier Rosato, said that the attack had left his client severely disabled and he can no longer bear to return to Marseille.

Rawalpindi: Pakistan’s counter-terrorism police raided a militant hideout in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, arresting three suspects linked to past bomb attacks.

The men had also plotted to target the Islamabad Stock Exchange, police said. According to the police statement, the suspects were involved in four bombings that killed four people and wounded 30 this year.

It said the arrested militants had a history of links with the Pakistani Taliban but were now allegedly acting as mercenaries and receiving instructions from someone in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Pakistan has witnessed scores of militant attacks in recent years.

The latest development comes a day after a roadside bomb wounded 23 people near a police station in the city of Rawalpindi, where the Pakistani military’s headquarters and the offices of the country’s spy agencies are located.

Rawalpindi is located about nine miles south of the capital, Islamabad.

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