Three witnesses of last October's bombings in Egyptian Sinai resorts testified on Monday before the Supreme State Security Court in Ismailia city, some 120 km northeast of the capital Cairo, the official MENA news agency reported.

"Two state security officers and a private security employee testified before the court," said MENA.

However, the court adjourned the hearings of another three witnesses to Monday.

Some 25 witnesses are due to give their testimonies before the court hands out its rulings.

The trial of Mohammed Ahmed Flefeil, Mohammed Jaber Sabah and Mohammed Abdullah Rubaa, who are suspected of involvement in the deadly attacks, was first scheduled to begin on July 2, but later postponed to Aug. 14.

Sabah and Rubaa are now behind the bars while Flefeil was killed by police during a shootout on Aug. 1.

The suspects are facing charges of premeditated murder of a number of tourists in north Sinai last October and attempted murder of others.

Other charges include resisting the authorities while they tried to arrest them and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition.

Three car bombs exploded almost simultaneously outside Taba Hilton hotel and two tourist camps 55 km further south on Oct. 7last year, killing 34 people, many of them foreign tourists.

(Xinhua News Agency August 15, 2005)