QUETTA, Nov 7: Anti-Terrorist Court Quetta Judge Mohammad Shaukat Rakhshani has convicted seven proclaimed absconders in absentia for five years imprisonment each allegedly involved in the attacks on June 8 and July 4 incidents that claimed about 65 lives.

The court here on Friday under the Anti-terrorist Act clause 21-L sentenced accused Shafiq Rind and Usman Saifullah for five years in the case for attacking the van which was carrying the police trainees on Sariab Road on June 8 in which 12 trainees were killed.

Five suspects of July 4 incident for attack on Imambargah Daud Badani, Ziaul Haq, Usman Saifullah, Malik Ishaq, and Dr Munir were also sentenced for five years.