GIZA, Egypt, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A criminal court sentenced at least 185 people to death on Tuesday for an attack on a police station in Kerdasa, Egypt, that killed 11 officers and two civilians.
The Giza court found the 185 defendants -- at least one news outlet reported there were 188 defendants -- guilty of murder, the attempted murder of 10 police officers, sabotaging the police station, setting fire to police vehicles and possessing heavy firearms.
Supporters of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi carried out the attack in October 2013 in response to a government crackdown on protests in Cairo that left hundreds dead.
Police stations were frequent targets since Morsi's replacement by an interim military government in 2013.
According to Egyptian law, the sentence will be reviewed by the country's grand mufti, an Islamic scholar, who will give a decision on his findings Jan. 24.
This isn't the first time an Egyptian court issued a mass death sentence in response to an attack on a police station. In March, 529 Muslim Brotherhood members were sentenced to death for killing one police officer in August 2013.
It was the largest mass death sentencing in modern Egyptian history. In response, Amnesty International called the ruling "grotesque."
